Jawdropped
Jawdropped formed early 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Each of its members (Cook Lee-Chobanian, Sean Edwards, Kyra Morling & Roman Zangari) orbited one another in the city’s bubbling DIY community, trudging a trail of past projects that eventually brought the band together. Los Angeles courses through their debut EP Just Fantasy, and it’s easy to imagine many of Jawdropped’s witticisms as overheard conversations at local haunts like Zebulon or Permanent Records. “I saw that your dad sent you money on Venmo, he said ‘Anything that’ll keep you stable!,” Morling sings on EP standout “Fantasy,” interstitching signposts of modernity between timeless platitudes. Elsewhere, Zangari sings of “vitamin deficiency, lack of sleep and ketamine,” satirizing the classic Los Angeles come-ups with celebratory melodies that burrow in the mind. The cheeky observations burrowed in Just Fantasy eschew the high horse, and instead poke fun from across the bar. It’s a balancing act between cynicism and optimism, forever falling apart but never giving up.