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Japanese Breakfast's 'Machinist' Is A Melancholy Story Of Sci-Fi Love

Michelle Zauner builds a body for her robot lover in the first single from Japanese Breakfast's second album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet.
A still from Japanese Breakfast's "Machinist" video.

We project ourselves into space, even if most of us will never rocket out of orbit in our lifetime.

"The title alludes to the promise of something that may or may not be there, like a

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