Spotlight On: THE JAPANESE HOUSE

ABOUT this week’s podcast guest + radio hour featured interview:

UK singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist Amber Bain has been obsessed with music nearly her entire life. As a teenager, Amber began playing in coffee houses, and writing and releasing music under the moniker The Japanese House. Her career got underway before she even turned 20, and success was soon to follow. A fortuitous introduction to members of the 1975 led to getting signed to their label Dirty Hit. She put out her debut EP Pools to Bathe In in 2015, and the 1975 took Amber out on the road as the opening act, and she toured with her labelmates Wolf Alice. Amber released a second EP, Clean in 2015, then four more including a live EP, before her critically hailed full length album, Good At Falling came out in 2019, which she co-produced with George Daniel of the 1975 and BJ Burton. The EP Chewing Cotton Wool followed in 2020, and then, when the pandemic hit, Amber hit a creative block. Lucky for us, she found her way out of it, and last June released her incredible second full length album and her seventh release overall, In the End It Always Does, which marks a revelatory turning point in Amber's creative process: she worked with producer and engineer Chloe Kraemer, which would be a life-changing experience of working with another queer woman in the studio for the first time. As she prepares to head out on a massive 2024 tour that kicks off in April at Coachella, I am so thrilled to welcome Amber Bain aka The Japanese House as this week’s SHERO in the Spotlight.

A condensed version of this interview is featured on the SHEROES Radio hour this week. Here’s what else you’ll hear: