“Paprika” by Japanese Breakfast

"Paprika" comes from Japanese Breakfast's 2021 album Jubilee, and it's Michelle Zauner going big. She wrote the words and music, sings it, and produced it with Craig Hendrix, who covers bass, drums, percussion and synthesizer, with Zauner pitching in on percussion and synths herself.

Then they roll out the horns: Aaron Rockers on trumpet, Adam Dotson on trombone, Adam Schatz on saxophone, plus a string section of Molly Germer's violin, Veronica Jurkiewicz's viola and Carolina Diazgranados's cello. The result swells like a parade turning the corner, a big, bright, bursting thing that sounds as if its maker couldn't hold it in another second.

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