Illustration by Mary Vertulfo
Michelle Zauner, also known as the Indie-rock singer-songwriter and FADER cover star Japanese Breakfast, has teamed up with Ryan Galloway of the great math-pop band Crying for a new project called BUMPER. Their debut EP pop songs 2020 is out on most streaming platforms tomorrow, but you can hear it in full on YouTube above, complete with a "lo-fi beats to study to"-style animation.
The new project was written during quarantine in early June. Zauner and Galloway live three blocks apart in New York City, and began exchanging song ideas and stems back and forth. The new music comes a few years after the last Japanese Breakfast album — 2017's Soft Sounds From Another Planet — and since Crying's 2016 debut Beyond the Fleeting Gales.
