Japanese Breakfast Thinks This Is the Best Song She's Ever Written

You probably know Michelle Zauner best as the frontwoman of the band Japanese Breakfast, or perhaps as the author of her recent bestselling memoir Crying in H Mart. But the multihyphenate has yet another role to add to her résumé: video game composer. First announced in 2017, Sable is a sprawling adventure game about the titular young hero venturing across a desert planet to return to her family of nomads. Zauner provides the musical backbone to Sable's journey, crafting a set of themes big and small to deepen the game's world. Coming from the world of indie rock, though, posed an interesting set of challenges for the artist--but ones that a life of playing fantasy role-playing video games like this one prepared her for.