The Japanese House announces new album In The End It Always Does with "Sad To Breathe"

The track – which follows on from "Boyhood" was co-produced by Amber Bain (The Japanese House), George Daniel (The 1975) and Chloe Kraemer (Rex Orange County, Lava La Rue, Glass Animals) features vocals from Daniels. It's accompanied by an alternate live version, which sees Amber and her band strip it back to its bare bones.

Of the song, Bain says: “I wrote "Sad To Breathe" some time ago, it’s one of the oldest songs on the record. 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.”

Written during a creative burst at the end of 2021, In the End It Always Does is primarily inspired by the events preceding it – including Bain’s first time moving to Margate, being in a throuple and the slow dissolution of those relationships. “[These two people] were together for six years and I met them and then we all fell in love at the same time – and then one of them left,” Bain remembers. “It was a ridiculously exciting start to a relationship. It was this high… And then suddenly I’m in this really domestic thing, and it’s not like there was other stuff going on – it was lockdown.”

In the End It Always Does 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.

Tracklist:

1. Spot Dog
2. Touching Yourself
3. Sad to Breathe
4. Over There
5. Morning Pages
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