Japanese Breakfast-JubileeFrom the moment she began writing her new album, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner's first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the

" turning them from typically sad Bon Iver songs into something weird and oddly more affecting

while still ambitious

and Robert Smithian vocals (de rigueur for their peer group) made them stars

better known as Uhmeer - an upcoming MC from Philadelphia

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exploring the outer reaches of dub music

Parker recorded the album on his own

released on October 2

as well as new collaborators Inflo and Ludwig Goransson

A sexual frisson too: a hovering at the brink

they're a reminder that the bandmembers ultimately became popular by being themselves

It's a long way from intimate folk songs recorded in a remote Wisconsin cabin