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Jawdropped – “Monday” Captures the Moment Before the Confession
Jawdropped’s new single "Monday" pairs power pop pep with a thread of anxiety — the breath before a confession. After signing with Transgressive/Canvasback and following last year’s EP Just Fantasy, the band heads into festival season with a song built on nervous momentum.
Jawdropped feels like a band hustling up a few rungs at once. They formed in Los Angeles in 2024, dropped a debut EP called Just Fantasy last year, and now they’re riding into a label deal with Transgressive/Canvasback. The new single “Monday” lands with the kind of forward motion that makes you think they were saving this one for when the stakes were higher.
The song stakes its whole case on a specific, electric instant: the breath before you tell someone something that changes the conversation. The opening lines do the work up front:
“I can’t wait for Monday ’cause that’s gonna be the day
That I say the one thing, the one thing I gotta say.”
There is pep to the arrangement — bright guitar chords and a drum pattern that pushes — but it never reads as just sunniness. There is a threaded anxiety in the vocal, a jitter that keeps the chorus from relieving tension the way a conventional power pop payoff would. That tug is what makes the track listenable beyond its hook: it sounds like somebody rehearsing bravery in real time.
The band gave a short statement that gets to the heart of it: “‘Monday’ is about treading the waters of anticipation, but deciding to face your feelings head on. The truth will set you free, even if it’s just the Sunday scaries.” It’s simple, and the song honors that simplicity. You can hear the set-up, the nervous charge, and the decision to move forward — all in three minutes.
Rob Fraebel directed the video for “Monday”; the clip sits under the song like a mirror, more focused on close-up moments than spectacle. If you watch it, you’ll notice how the camera lingers on small gestures and the nervous choreography of waiting. It’s not reinventing the wheel, but it fits the song in a way that feels intentional.
For fans, the practical news is the band is hitting the festival circuit this spring and summer. Catch them at The Great Escape in Brighton, the Dot To Dot dates in Bristol and Nottingham, a handful of UK club shows, and then a July date at the Denver Botanic Gardens. These are the kinds of rooms and festival fields where a song like “Monday” can either explode into singalongs or get swallowed by a bigger set — and given how direct the chorus is, I’m betting on the former.
There’s a hunger to Jawdropped that the new single makes plain: a willingness to put an honest, slightly anxious moment in the spotlight and let the audience fill it in. It’s a tidy next step after Just Fantasy, and a move that should make fans pay attention as the band steps into bigger stages.
Tour dates:
5/14-15 – Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape Festival
5/16 – Sheffield, UK @ Get Together Festival
5/18 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
5/19 – London, UK @ George Tavern
5/22 – Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach
5/23 – Bristol, UK @ Dot To Dot Festival
5/24 – Nottingham, UK @ Dot To Dot Festival
7/09 – Denver, CO @ Denver Botanic Gardens
