Description
Jawdropped’s Secret to Spare at once feels classic and immediate, with every sunburst guitar hook and sharpened vocal melody hitting the ears like a half-full beer bottle careening towards the brick wall of your favorite dive bar. The Los Angeles quartet have established their sound—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—in shockingly quick time, making Secret to Spare one of the most fully-realized debut albums in recent memory. Secret to Spare follows Jawdropped’s Just Fantasy EP from last year, underscoring how remarkable it is that this group—vocalists Kyra Morling and vocalists/guitarist Roman Zangari, bassist Sean Edwards, and drummer Cook Lee-Chobanian—have accomplished so much since forming just two years ago. “We were all in bands that were not really working out at the time,” Zangari recalls regarding Jawdropped’s origins. “My old band had gotten an opportunity to do a house show, and Kyra convinced me to try some songs I was sitting on. I convinced her to play the show with me, and after we got Sean on board we were like, ‘Actually, this could be a band here.’”