She said her "dark and heavy-handed" record was a confrontation of her mother's death, although she tried to make the music urgent and "sonically upbeat." The album's rollout on Yellow K Records began in January 2016 with the release of the single "In Heaven" via Stereogum. Zauner recorded it while working at an advertising agency. In 2015, Zauner recorded her first studio album as Japanese Breakfast: Psychopomp, named for the mythological creature. She said she had more to say after Tropical Jinx, the 2014 studio album by her emo group Little Big League. While in Oregon with her family in 2014, Zauner continued recording as Japanese Breakfast, starting with samples of music as a meditative exercise and "instant gratification". Re-recorded versions of several songs from these releases would appear on the first two Japanese Breakfast albums. Both were released as the cassette tape American Sound/Where Is My Great Big Feeling. On June 6, Zauner released her songs from the project on Bandcamp as a digital album entitled Where Is My Great Big Feeling?, followed on June 24 by American Sound.
In 2014, Zauner participated as Japanese Breakfast in a song project with musicians Gabrielle Smith, Florist, Frankie Cosmos, and Small Wonder, who posted songs daily on the Tumblr blog may5to12songs. The first Japanese Breakfast release was June (2013), the result of a month-long project in which Zauner and Rachel Gagliardi recorded one song a day and posted them on the Tumblr blog rachelandmichelledojune. 1.3 2017–2019: Soft Sounds from Another Planet and Sable.Jubilee was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Japanese Breakfast for Best New Artist at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards and became the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, where it peaked at 56. Its critical and commercial success led Japanese Breakfast to sign with the record label Dead Oceans, which released the band's second and third albums: Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017) and Jubilee (2021). The songs eventually became Japanese Breakfast's debut studio album: Psychopomp (2016), released by Yellow K Records. She continued to record music and songs, first to cope with stress, then, after her mother died, with grief. In 2014, she returned to her hometown of Eugene, Oregon, to care for her ailing mother. She has said that she named the band after seeing a GIF of Japanese breakfast and deciding that the term would be considered "exotic" to Americans she also thought it would make others wonder what a Japanese breakfast consists of. Zauner started the band as a side project in 2013, when she was leading the Philadelphia-based emo group Little Big League. Japanese Breakfast is an alternative pop band headed by Korean-American musician, director, and author Michelle Zauner.
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