Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner on scoring Sable and enjoying "being a cog in the creative machine"
The Japanese Breakfast-scored video game is out September 23
The Summer Of Japanese Breakfast—which has so far included Michelle Zauner putting out her band’s third LP and a memoir that’s now being turned into a movie—will continue until at least the end of September, with the release of Sable and her first full-length video game soundtrack.
Following a few years of quiet after the 2017 promo-game Japanese Breakquest, Zauner was active in games again last week with the release of both a vaguely disquieting Simlish “Be Sweet” remix and a live performance of Sable track “Glider” during Summer Game Fest. Uproxx interviewed Zauner about this aspect of her current work, learning about her history with games and what it’s been like to write Sable’s soundtrack.
When asked how the experience has been compared to her work with Japanese Breakfast, Zauner says that creating alongside Shedworks, the game’s two-person studio, has led her to “really appreciate being a cog in the creative machine” and “[contributing] to someone else’s vision that I trusted.”
