Jawdropped have announced the details of the first big step in their guaranteed ascent to the top, revealing everything you need to know about their debut album.

The record is set to be called ‘Secret To Spare’ and will be released on 18 September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback.

The band’s own Roman Zangari had this to say about what inspired him whilst writing the album:

I’m always writing based off of things that I hear, or something that happened to a friend. 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 artwork looks like this:

Whilst the tracklisting is a bit more like this:

1. The Line
2. Monday
3. Split Lip
4. Cellulite
5. High Beams
6. Cup
7. Smoglight
8. Pitch Black
9. Whiplash
10. Two

You can also check out a new taste of the album now in the form of ‘Split Lip’, which as bright and breezy a song as you’re going to hear all Summer. Soft patters of indie emo sentiment are mashed together with a shimmering Brit-pop spirit to create the sort of song that eases the senses and warms the heart.

Lyrically though, it’s a song that hits very close to home for the quartet, as Roman explains:

“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?”