Jawdropped are releasing their debut album in September, a pitch-perfect blend of big-hearted indie rock, the sour-sweet sounds of '90s alternative radio and the shaggy-and-ragged sound of alt-country.
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 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
Released: September 2026
Cat: TRANS977XX
Label: Transgressive Records
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Tracklist
1. The Line
2. Monday
3. Split Lip
4. Cellulite
5. High Beams
6. Cup
7. Smoglight
8. Pitch Black
9. Whiplash
10. Two