Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video directed by Rob Fraebel. The band is comprised of members Roman Zangari, Kyra Morling, Sean Edwards, and Cook Lee-Chobanian, and recently made their first trip over here to perform at Brighton’s The Great Escape and for a string of debut headliners. And they return in October with the dates below.
Of the single, Roman says, “It’s about being in a band and struggling to keep your shit in check; you spend your whole life as a musician striving for success and hoping to experience all these things that the four of us were experiencing for the first time. This song weighs out the excitement of that with the underwhelming reality of it all: we’re still broke, there’s no guarantee that any of this is going to lead to anything. How do you know that these decisions you’ve made are going to pan out in the future?”
At large, the album appears 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 raconteurishness 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.”
The album came together across spare days and weekends in 2025, in the gaps between the band’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.”
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.”
“Secret To Spare” 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
Jawdropped UK Tour Dates 2026:
10/30 – Sheffield, UK – Alder
11/2 – London, UK – Pitchfork London
11/3 – Southampton, UK – Joiners
11/4 – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade
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