Bumper is a new project of Japanese Breakfast‘s Michelle Zauner and Crying‘s Ryan Galloway. Zauner and Galloway live very close to each other, but they haven’t seen each other since the beginning of the 2020 quarantine. The two started trading tracks, adding layers back and forth over email: synths and samples, tracks and tunes. Their sound mixes the playful quirks of Cibo Matto with the bombastic power of late 80’s Janet Jackson.