Jawdropped Release New Single & Video 'Cup'

Jawdropped, 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. Realizing 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.

WATCH THE “CUP” VIDEO

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 fall tour dates that include shows supporting This Is Lorelei. Tickets are available now via jawdropped.life. All dates below.

Jawdropped is Roman Zangari, Kyra Morling, Sean Edwards, and Cook Lee-Chobanian.

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.

Tour Dates

• 21/09 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean *w/ Graham Hunt
• 22/09 - Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups *w/ This Is Lorelei
• 23/09 - Indianapolis, IN - Turntable*w/ This Is Lorelei
• 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 Festival London (MOTH Club)
• 03/11 - Southampton, UK - Joiners
• 04/11 - Bristol, UK - Rough Trade
• 06/11 - Nantes, FR - Catapult Festival
• 07/11 - Paris, FR - Pitchfork Paris