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May 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Japanese Breakfast (aka Michelle Zauner) has announced her sophomore album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, and shared a video for its first single, "Machinist." Soft Sounds From Another Planet is due out July 14 via Dead Oceans. "Machinist" is a danceable first single that ends with a sax solo. Zauner self-directed the sci-fi themed video. Watch it below, followed by the album's tracklist and her upcoming tour dates.

The album is the follow-up to 2016's well-received debut, Psychopomp. A press release says Soft Sounds From Another Planet "is a work of self-reflection that looks out at the cosmos in search of healing, finding inspiration in science fiction, outer space, and the Mars One Project."

Zauner had this to say about the "Machinist" video in a press release: "the song is a sci-fi narrative about a woman who falls in love with a robot. In the video she hallucinates on rocket fuel and tears apart her spaceship in an attempt to build a body for her robot lover."

Soft Sounds From Another Planet Tracklist:

1. Diving Woman
2. Road Head
3. Machinist
4. Planetary Ambience
5. Soft Sounds From Another Planet
6. Boyish
7. 12 Steps
8. Jimmy Fallon Big
9. Body Is A Blade
10. Till Death
11. This House
12. Here Come The Tubular Bells

Japanese Breakfast Tour Dates:

5/5 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall ~
5/6 - Montreal, QC @ Olympia Theatre ~
5/7 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ~ 
5/8 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ~
5/9 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ~
6/2 - Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel *
6/3 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter *
6/4 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle (Back Room) *
6/6 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory) *
6/7 - Orlando, FL @ The Social *
6/9 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *
6/10 - Austin, TX @ The Parish *
6/11 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada *
6/13 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge *
6/15 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex *
6/16 - San Diego, CA @ The Irenic *
6/17 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room *
6/18 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel *
6/20 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile *
6/21 - Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt *
6/22 - Portland, OR @ Holocene *
6/24 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court *
6/25 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge *
6/27 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry *
6/28 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge *
6/29 - Columbus, OH @ Double Happiness *
6/30 - Lakewood, OH @ Mahall's *
7/1 - Detroit, MI @ El Club *
7/2 - Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground *
7/4 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB *
7/5 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair *
7/6 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
7/7 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *
7/8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
7/27 - Halifax, NS @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium ^
7/28 - Portland, ME @ State Theatre ^
7/29 - Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom ^
7/31 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues ^
8/2 - Covington, KY @ Madison Theater ^

~ w/ Slowdive
* w/ (Sandy) Alex G & Cende
^ w/ Tegan & Sara

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