Japanese Breakfast share rerecordings on new ‘Live At Electric Lady’ EP
Japanese Breakfast have released their new EP, Live At Electric Lady, available exclusively on Spotify. The EP, which features a string section, includes newly recorded live versions of “Be Sweet,” “Savage Good Boy,” “Tactics” and “Kokomo, IN.” Read more: 14 modern artists who are continuing to build the legacy of indie “Recording at Electric Lady […]
“Recording at Electric Lady was truly the perfect experience,” frontwoman Michelle Zauner says. “The longer I’ve worked as a recording artist, the more I’ve realized it’s the simple stripped-down songs that are the hardest to get right. Having the opportunity to revisit the core catalog of my songwriting in a room with so much history, surrounded by engineers and gear of the highest caliber, was just a dream come true.”
“I played a very sloppy basement cover of ‘Say It Ain’t So’ once with my band in college, so it was fun to revisit it from the opposite angle, stripped down with a string quartet,” Zauner says. “Craig Hendrix did the arrangement, and Quartet 121 performed the hell out of it.”
Japanese Breakfast’s EP is part of the Live At Electric Lady EP series, in which the studio partnered with Spotify to exclusively bring artists to record in the studio in partnership with the streaming service. Other artists involved in the project include Faye Webster, Dominic Fike, Remi Wolfand more.
You can listen to Japanese Breakfast’s EP below, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
10/29 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory ^ 10/30 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall ^ 10/31 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s (Levitation) ^ 11/01 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger ^ 11/03 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress (Outdoor Plaza) ^ 11/04 – Tempe, AZ @ Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium ^ 11/07 – Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre ^ 11/09 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades ^ 11/11 – Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^ 11/12 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ Madonna Inn ^ 11/13 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst ^ 11/14 – Perris, CA @ Desert Daze 11/15 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House ^ 11/16 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House ^
03/13 – Madrid, ES @ Sala Independence 03/14 – Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apolo 03/16 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquineire 03/17 – Antwerp, BE @ Trix 03/19 – Amsterdam, NE @ Paradiso Noord 03/20 – Hamburg, HH @ Molotow Musikclub 03/21 – Copenhagen, DE @ Hotel Cecil 03/22 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club 03/23 – Cologne, DE @ Luxor 03/25 – Bristol, UK @ SXW 03/26 – Manchester, UK @ Academy 2 03/27 – Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke’s 03/28 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Community Room 03/30 – London, UK @ Kentish Town Forum 03/31 – Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory 06/09 – Porto, PT @ NOS Primavera Sound Festival