The Japanese House are edging closer and closer to the release of their new album In The End It Always Does. It’s set to be an intimate and intense display of carefully crafted musicianship, to say the least. And the tracks that they have shared up until now have been incredible. There’s been the soft “Sunshine Baby“, which featured The 1975’s Matty Healy. There’s also the sun-stained “Sad To Breathe” and emotionally complex “Boyhood” as well. But now, there is “One for sorrow, two for Joni Jones”, which is possibly the most heartwrenching piece yet.
The final track on the album, it is named after Amber Bain’s, the brainchild behind The Japanese House, dog. And such a close relationship is painted gorgeously via soft piano flutters and stunning strings. It was written with MUNA’s Katie Gavin and co-produced alongside Chloe Kraemer, by the way. And the influence of both can be heard peaking through the cracks of this stunning admittance of things in your life-changing.
Amber had this to say about it:
“This is my favorite song, and I wrote it as a piece ages ago when I was playing the piano and [producer] Chloe would record me playing the piano loads with my dog on my lap. We sat on the music for ages then Katie from MUNA came down to the studio and put the rambling lyrics over music in a Joni Mitchell kind of way.
I’m trying to encapsulate that feeling, a sort of ode to that feeling when Emma Thompson stands there and cries when she’s holding the CD in Love Actually. The lyrics are about the confirmation that my relationship was dead, and it’s the only song I’ve ever cried during the vocal take, which has never happened before.”
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In The End It Always Does will be released on June 30 via Dirty Hit. The Japanese House also recently announced their North American tour in support of the record. Here are all the dates:
- Nov 01 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
- Nov 02 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
- Nov 04 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
- Nov 06 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
- Nov 07 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
- Nov 08 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
- Nov 10 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
- Nov 11 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
- Nov 12 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
- Nov 14 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
- Nov 16 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
- Nov 17 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
- Nov 18 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
- Nov 20 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
- Nov 21 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
- Nov 23 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
- Nov 24 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
- Nov 25 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
- Nov 27 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot
- Nov 28 – Denver, CO @Summit Music Hall
- Nov 30 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
- Dec 01 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
- Dec 02 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fineline
- Dec 03 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
- Dec 05 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
- Dec 06 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
- Dec 08 – Montréal, QC @ Studio TD
- Dec 09 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground – The Ballroom
- Dec 10 – Boston, MA @ Royale
