Psychopomp is the debut studio album by Japanese Breakfast, the solo musical project of Michelle Zauner of Little Big League.

Michelle Zauner fronted the Philadelphian emo band Little Big League from 2011 until 2014,[2] when she returned to her hometown of Eugene, Oregon, where her mother had been diagnosed with cancer.

[2] While tending to her family in Oregon, Zauner began recording solo music as a self-meditative and "instant-gratification" feeling[3] and because she found she had more to say after Tropical Jinx, the 2014 studio album by Little Big League.

[17] Nina Corcocan of Consequence of Sound wrote: "It's lo-fi heart with detailed production, the type of pop that feels homey and familiar — which is doubly surprising given Zauner’s other band, Little Big League, is full of jock riffs and chunky guitar rock.

[20] AllMusic critic Tim Sendra, who described the record as "an impressive work by an artist well worth watching in the future", wrote, "Zauner's songs don't need dressing up; time and again she and Eisenberg make the right choices that allow the melodies to breathe and the emotions to flow unhindered by artifice.

"[17] Consequence of Sound's Nina Corcoran wrote, "Psychopomp chases joy while replicating it in the process, leaving you full of the belief that this could be your year after all.

"[16] Pitchfork critic Laura Snapes wrote that the record "offers much more than that: at once cosmically huge and acutely personal, Zauner captures grief for the perversely intimate yet overwhelming pain it is.