VIDEO “CUP”
DEBUT ALBUM SECRET TO SPARE
OUT 18TH SEPTEMBER VIA TRANSGRESSIVE/CANVASBACK
PLAYING PITCHFORK LONDON & FURTHER UK DATES LATER THIS YEAR
“A collection of bittersweet power pop vignettes about thrills, failures, and dashed dreams in a city built on all three” – Paste, The Best of What’s Next
“The record blends punchy indie rock with sharply defined melodic twists, with their jangle-heavy rush peppered with novelistic insight.” – CLASH
“Exactly the kind of slack, shimmering power-pop jangle that would’ve got major label talent scouts fired up in the ’90s” – Stereogum, 5 Best Songs of the Week
Jawdropped today release “Cup”, the driving new single from the LA band’s anticipated debut album, Secret To Spare, due September 18th via Transgressive Records / Canvasback.
Of the song, the band says “The idea for ‘Cup’ actually came from an older song of ours called ‘Star.’ We wanted to write about this same character who moves to LA with stars in their eyes, only to see themselves burnout. It’s about getting swept up in the ‘idea’ of a place, rather than the reality. Realising you’re the last one at the party.”
Secret to Spare at once feels classic and immediate – a pitch-perfect melange of big-hearted indie rock, the sour-sweet sounds of ‘90s alternative radio, and the shaggy-and-ragged sound of alt-country.
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At large, Secret To Spare is lyrically driven by what Zangari defines as “stories you’ve overheard as a barfly.” “I’m always writing based off of things that I hear, or something that happened to a friend,” Morling explains regarding the blend of raconteurish-ness and interior voyeurism that makes up these twin lyricists’ POV. “L.A. is this destination that so many people move to with a dream of having this exciting life in the arts,” Zangari adds. “There’s so many crazy people you meet across that spectrum of failure and success, and I’m really fascinated by those stories. But there’s a self-reflective level too, because we’re also playing that game. We’re no different than the failed actor that’s working at the bar.”
Jawdropped have announced summer and Autumn tour dates in the US that include shows supporting This Is Lorelei. They return to the UK in October and November for a string of headline dates and to perform as part of Pitchfork London.
Tickets are available now via jawdropped.life. All dates below.
Jawdropped is Roman Zangari, Kyra Morling, Sean Edwards, and Cook Lee-Chobanian.
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“MONDAY” + “SPLIT LIP” VIDEOS BELOW
Secret To Spare officially came together across spare days and weekends across 2025, in the gaps between Jawdropped’s increasingly busy tour schedule, including runs with their labelmates Greg Freeman and Rocket, and juggling various day jobs. “The EP were songs that pretty much already existed,” Kyra Morling explains. “This record was the first time where we were building songs together in a room.” Together, the foursome pooled their simpatico inspirations – the Lemonheads’ beautifully messy country-pop sprawl, Paul Westerburg’s wizened raucousness, and the crunchy hooks of ‘90s greats like Teenage Fanclub and Dinosaur Jr. – into the ten gems that make up this record.
Jawdropped put every last drop of themselves into Secret To Spare; aside from engineer work from Colin Knight (Agriculture) and an expert mixdown from Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee), the quartet self-produced this record to capture just how their live shows feel in the moment. “We wanted it to sound like a band in a room, so we recorded live and tried not to water down what we do,” Zangari says. “We wanted to capture the essence of how we play live—the unfiltered Jawdropped sound.” The result is a record that’s as raw as it is meticulous.
Secret To Spare brims with the sort of confidence that many bands spend their entire careers trying to locate, especially in a storied scene such as the California coast. “From the start, we wanted to make music that felt like Los Angeles,” Zangari explains while discussing the ambitions that currently drive Jawdropped. “There’s a sensibility of Los Angeles music where, under the sunshine and brightness, there’s this seedier, melancholy, darker aspect. We’re trying to carve out our own niche in that vein.” And Secret To Spare does much more than that, immediately establishing Jawdropped as one of the city’s leading lights in indie rock.
21/09 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean ^
22/09 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups *
23/09 – Indianapolis, IN @ Turntable *
02/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
08/10 – New York, NY @ Night Club 101
22/10 – Rotterdam, NL @ Left of the Dial Festival
23/10 – Rotterdam, NL @ Left of the Dial Festival
25/10 – Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
27/10 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
28/10 – Gent, BE @ Ringo
30/10 – Sheffield, UK @ Alder
02/11 – London, UK @ Pitchfork London
03/11 – Southampton, UK @ Joiners
04/11 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade
06/11 – Nantes, FR @ Catapult Festival
07/11 – Paris, FR @ Pitchfork Paris
^ w/ Graham Hunt
* w/ This Is Lorelei
Secret To Spare album artwork | Download Hi-Res HERE
Jawdropped
Secret To Spare
Out September 18th on Transgressive / Canvasback
Tracklisting:
1. The Line
2. Monday
3. Split Lip
4. Cellulite
5. High Beams
6. Cup
7. Smoglight
8. Pitch Black
9. Whiplash
10. Two
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