Japanese Breakfast and Magdalena Bay teamed as much as cowl MGMT‘s ‘Time To Faux’ – take a look at the footage beneath.
The second passed off on Saturday evening (October 4), throughout Japanese Breakfast’s set at Austin Metropolis Limits. It is available in help of their fourth and newest album, ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Unhappy Ladies)’.
To shut their efficiency, Michelle Zauner pretended to dial an enormous, faux telephone to name Magdalena Bay’s Mica Tenenbaum – who had performed on the competition earlier within the day – to the stage.
They went on to carry out a canopy of MGMT’s hit tune ‘Time To Faux’. Followers have since been reacting on social media, with one calling the collab “one of the best second of the day”, and one other including, “this might heal me”.
Test it out beneath.
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Earlier this summer time, Japanese Breakfast caught up with NME at Glastonbury 2025. Zauner talked about lastly making it to the legendary competition, after she was pressured to cancel her 2023 set as a result of “journey delays”.
“It was a significant bucket record [moment] two years in the past,” she recalled. “And within the historical past of Japanese Breakfast, it’s additionally the one present that we’ve ever not been capable of play due to one thing that we’ve finished.
“[Playing today] was onerous gained. Our bus broke down in Sweden a pair [of] days in the past and we nonetheless don’t have a working bus. It’s a extremely intense, onerous time for our band and crew, however we did it and it felt actually onerous gained.”
You possibly can revisit the video interview in full above.
Again in August, the band had been joined on stage by Beck at a stay present within the US.
In a four-star evaluation of her newest album, NME wrote: “True to the literary whimsy of its title, ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Unhappy Ladies)’ appears like dwelling inside a classical piece of artwork, each element an elaborate brushstroke.”
In the meantime, Magdalena Bay are at present engaged on a movie for his or her newest album ‘Imaginal Disk’.
The acclaimed album was additionally topped NME‘s fifth greatest album of 2024, with Alex Rigotti writing: “Cue ‘Imaginal Disk’, which blends easy rock, psychedelia and disco to provide one of many funkiest examinations of the human situation. Straddling the road between thought of craftsmanship and straight-up bangers, ‘Imaginal Disk’ is sophistipop at its most interesting.”
They’ve additionally introduced a 2026 UK and European tour that kicks off in Birmingham’s O2 Academy on February 2. They are going to then head to Cardiff, Dublin, Glasgow and Manchester, earlier than an enormous present at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.
They set off round Europe from there, enjoying in eight international locations and rounding it off in Stockholm on February 26. Tickets for the exhibits are on sale now, it is possible for you to to search out yours right here.
