The Japanese House to perform at Buffalo's Electric City

The Japanese House (acclaimed project of Amber Bain) will perform at Electric City in Buffalo on Thursday, Sept. 26, as a part of her North American headline tour. The show starts at 8 p.m. Find tickets and more information here.

Amber recently wrapped her tour with Maggie Rogers and, earlier in the summer, she released her new single “:)" (aka “Smiley Face”). It’s a warm, happy song that still serves up those classic, vulnerable lyrics. Produced alongside close collaborators George Daniel (The 1975) and Chloe Kraemer (Rina Sawayama, FKA twigs, Rex Orange County), the unabashed ode to happiness finds Amber letting her anxieties take a backseat.

The release of her lauded sophomore album, “In The End It Always Does,” highlights heartbreak and love lost, emotional reflections on childhood trauma and identity, and the album finds the artist embracing her pop side like never before with help from Matty Healy and George Daniel (The 1975), Katie Gavin (MUNA), Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Charli XCX among others.

Amber kicked off 2024 with an NPR “Tiny Desk” performance, and her intimate, unique sound has propelled her to hundreds of millions of streams and major media praise. “In The End It Always Does” follows her 2020 EP, “Chewing Cotton Wool,” and debut “Good At Faling” (2019). For more information, visit thejapanesehouse.co.uk. 

“ ‘Smiley Face’ is a song I wrote when I was very excited about talking to someone off a dating app,” Amber said. “She lived in Detroit, and I was fantasizing about flying to meet her. I was in a session at the time for someone else’s stuff, but I couldn't help this song spilling out of me, I was in some sort of frenzy. Turns out I did buy the plane tickets, now we're engaged.” 

The Japanese House is an alternative pop star for the modern age who is serving up vulnerable lyrics and down to earth, celestial songs. Over the summer, Fred again.. released his new album, “Ten Days,” which features “backseat,” a remix of The Japanese House’s “Sunshine Baby” from “In The End It Always Does.”

For more information, visit thejapanesehouse.co.uk.