The Japanese House is English musician Amber Bain, born in Buckinghamshire in 1995 and signed to Dirty Hit alongside the 1975 — whose Matt Healy and George Daniel helped produce her early EPs. Her layered, synth-washed dream pop peaks on Good at Falling (2019) and In the End It Always Does (2023). Explore The Japanese House vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Amber Bain, performing as The Japanese House, was born in Buckinghamshire, England on July 23, 1995. She signed with Dirty Hit (the British indie label home to the 1975, Wolf Alice, beabadoobee, and others) and released her debut EP Pools to Bathe In in 2015 with production input from the 1975's Matt Healy and George Daniel. Her debut full-length Good at Falling (2019) and follow-up In the End It Always Does (2023) have established her as a defining figure in contemporary British indie pop. She is openly queer and her lyrical content has addressed her relationships with other women.
The Japanese House's sound combines indie pop, dream pop, indie rock, electronic pop, and synth-pop with Bain's distinctive layered vocal harmonies (drawing on Bon Iver's Justin Vernon approach), atmospheric synthesizer-driven production, and lyrical content addressing relationships, identity, and emotional experience.
Dirty Hit pressings of The Japanese House catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to The Japanese House typically start with In the End It Always Does (2023) or Good at Falling (2019).
