The Japanese House - In The End It Always Does (June 30,2023) Album

1. Spot Dog
2. Touching Yourself
3. Sad to Breathe
4. Over There
5. Morning Pages ft Muna
6. Boyhood
7. Indexical reminder of a morning well spent
8. Friends
9. Sunshine Baby
10. Baby goes again
11. You always get what you want
12. One for sorrow, two for Joni Jones

 

LET'S FUCKING GO

 

hype

 

The Japanese House has announced details of her second studio album In the End It Always Does. Featuring recent single ‘Boyhood’, much of the album lives in the contradictory: beginnings and endings, obsession and mundanity, falling in love and falling apart.

With the announcement comes new track ‘Sad to Breathe’, an upbeat sounding heartbreaker co-produced by TJH’s Amber Bain with The 1975’s George Daniel and Chloe Kraemer accompanied by a beautiful live alternate version of the track directed by Sheila Johansson which sees Amber and her extended live band strip the track back to its bare bones.

“I wrote Sad To Breathe some time ago, it’s one of the oldest songs on the record.” tells Amber. “It was very different back then; it’s gone from being solely electronic to what it is now, mostly live/ acoustic instrumentation. It’s about that desperate feeling when someone leaves you and the disbelief that they could. It’s funny you could have those kind of insane dramatic thoughts, that feel so real at the time, but can by some miracle look back in fondness to your entire life being ruined. It all circles back around.”

Four years after her widely celebrated debut Good at Falling, this album sees Bain lean even further into the pop realm–with help from Matty Healy and George Daniel from The 1975, Katie Gavin from MUNA and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon among others. Bain credits Gavin especially with injecting her with creative energy and inspiration throughout.

The album also sees Bain work alongside producer and engineer Chloe Kraemer (Rex Orange County, Lava La Rue, Glass Animals), an experience she describes as “life changing” due to the unspoken, shared understanding between marginalised genders in a creative space.

“I’d never worked with a woman or queer person [in that way] before,” Bain says. “It’s nice to have someone who completely understands your standpoint and shared experience. Also, I say ‘she’ in every song... so it’s important that someone understands that.”

 

Oh. My. God. The pickup in Sad to Breathe is huge

I’m already emotionally tender today, this is so fantastic

 

AOTY possibly AOTL

 

excited for the album, really like the two singles. kinda lame album cover though.

 

lobster red vinyl ordered!

 

sup

 

Looks like there's a red version (Dirty Hit), blue version (standard), and yellow (record store exclusive?).

 

2 heaters so far

 

yup that's it so far. tbh three variants are plenty for her

 

Let’s goo

 

crying

 

I’m so, so excited

 

they tagged charli xcx on their instagram post too.. a feature? i'd cry

 

Most anticipated for sure. Absolutely love the new sound!

 

here for it

 

it’s the same crappy artwork as metric - art of doubt :(

 

I’m just so so happy that they’re expanding on the sound from the latest EP, because that EP was an absolute home run as much as I loved their prior material.

 

Song is fucking amazing though

 

Thought this was gonna be a music video, turns out it’s a live stripped back performance. Still cool! Interesting to get two completely different versions of this song in the same day haha

 

This is a lot closer to release than I was led to believe!

 

Hell yeah its a great day for announcements. So ready for this record.

 

FUCK YES