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Add to playlist: the righteous jangle and snaking melodies of Jawdropped and the week’s best new tracks

The LA-based powerpop project’s triumphant debut is a celebration of low-stakes creativity in the slacker-skater tradition From Los Angeles Recommended if you like the Lemonheads, Sugar, the Muffs Up next Secret to Spare released 18 September Maybe it’s to do with getting older, maybe it’s to do with the broad-spectrum grimness of it all, but the thrill of low-stakes creativity, of making something for the joy of making it rather than in the hope of making it , feels particularly vital at the moment. And, if the sun-bleached cool of Jawdropped’s music is anything to go by, starting a powerpop project in your 30s will light up this pleasure centre like a dive bar pinball machine. Continue reading...

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The LA-based powerpop project’s triumphant debut is a celebration of low-stakes creativity in the slacker-skater tradition From Los Angeles Recommended if you like the Lemonheads, Sugar, the Muffs Up next Secret to Spare released 18 September Maybe it’s to do with getting older, maybe it’s to do with the broad-spectrum grimness of it all, but the thrill of low-stakes creativity, of making something for the joy of making it rather than in the hope of making it , feels particularly vital at the moment. And, if the sun-bleached cool of Jawdropped’s music is anything to go by, starting a powerpop project in your 30s will light up this pleasure centre like a dive bar pinball machine. Continue reading...

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According to The Guardian’s linked report, Add to playlist: the righteous jangle and snaking melodies of Jawdropped and the week’s best new tracks, The LA-based powerpop project’s triumphant debut is a celebration of low-stakes creativity in the slacker-skater tradition From Los Angeles Recommended if you like the Lemonheads, Sugar, the Muffs Up next Secret to Spare released 18 September Maybe it’s to do with getting older, maybe it’s to do with the broad-spectrum grimness of it all, but the thrill of low-stakes creativity, of making something for the joy of making it rather than in the hope of making it , feels particularly vital at the moment. And, if the sun-bleached cool of Jawdropped’s music is anything to go by, starting a powerpop project in your 30s will light up this pleasure centre like a dive bar pinball machine. Continue reading…

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