Jaded Teeth are a rising duo from Suffolk, blending delicate folk, country hues, and emotive indie songwriting into something uniquely their own. Their new single “Lamb“ is a tender reflection on the loss and growth that come with early adulthood, wrapped in elegant guitar work and raw, heartfelt lyricism. The pair—Indigo Spooner and Jack Stanton—have quickly built a name for themselves through captivating live shows and thoughtful, intimate storytelling. We caught up with them around the release of Lamb to dive deeper into the song’s meaning and their creative journey so far.
● Can you tell us how Jaded Teeth came to be? How did the two of you meet and start making music together?
We met in 2017 through a music club in our town and instantly hit it off. We started off by making music with our old band Substation which ended in 2023 and that led to us continuing to make music together, taking influence from the stuff that we’d heard over that year like Adrianne Lenker and Boygenius, we took a stab at making music out of our comfort zone and slowly we found ourselves writing for ourselves
and what would become Jaded Teeth.
● What’s the story behind the name ‘Jaded Teeth’? It’s quite a striking name—does it carry a particular meaning for you?
To be completely honest I think we got it from a random band name generator and just put the words we liked together. I think some of the other options were like jaded flower, which definitely doesn’t have as much of a ring to it. But quite frankly I think we’ve used that imagery through our songs and have developed our own personal meanings for it, one being a kind of metaphorical sense for trying to chew your way through life and how that can slowly wear you out. But we try not to give our songs and brand too much definition, we want everyone to find their own meaning through our music and how it applies to their own life or story; that’s a beautiful thing for us to witness and see people uncover for themselves.
● ‘Lamb’ feels really personal and reflective, can you walk us through the songwriting process behind it?
I think Indy brought the lyrics to me with this idea of growing and how we go aboutit, do we abandon our past and forget? Do we take it with us and let it define who we are? The whole song is really a question which I think was why we gravitated towards it so much. We came up with the general structure of it in about the first hour of working on it and then we took it to our amazing band and built it into what it is
now.
● You describe ‘Lamb’ as “a relic in your set”. How has it changed for you since it was written?
We wrote it so early on in our time together, normally songs get swapped around or reworked quite a bit but there was a certain potency with lamb that we’ve never felt the need to change it. I think the past year of growing as a band and with a song is something so special and how they can still hold their meaning after being played a hundred times, the future of Jaded Teeth will always have this song be a part of it.
● You’ve been building a strong presence in the local scene. What have been some standout moments from your live shows so far?
We’ve played some absolutely amazing shows with some absolutely amazing people, big shout out to Flores Blue and Headcheck, we’re super into what they’re doing and hope to perform with them again in the future. Burysound was a big highlight and such a great thing to be a part of, it’s one of our favourite times of the year in the local music scene as it feels like there is so much collaboration, involvement and interest from the whole community. A highlight for us was our first ever headline at The Hunter Club in Bury St Edmunds, we performed it after our Bury Sound gig and despite having no music released we still had people singing our songs to us which was just so shocking. It really stuck with us and made us say to ourselves “maybe we can do something bigger with this”.
● Winning Bury Sound 2024 must’ve been a big moment. How did that feel, and what’s changed since then?
It felt amazing it was so big for us as we tried and tried, over and over again in various bands for years. It provided us with so many opportunities to take us to the next step as a band and take ourselves more professionally, it definitely gave us incentive to keep moving forward and the confidence to do so. I think we were definitely a bit naive, after winning we went quite static for a couple months and I think it took us a minute to realise that it was up to us to make use of what Bury Sound had given us. Since then we’ve recorded, made t-shirts, played more gigs across east anglia and it has given us a massive boost on our social media.
● Can you share anything about what’s next? Maybe an EP or more singles this year?
More will be coming definitely in the form of singles, we’d love to do an EP or an album sometime soon but it’s hard for us to find the time especially with us being spread across the country. But we always have something in the works or something we want to share, whether that’s demos or unreleased music on our socials @jadedteeth on instagram and @jaded.teeth on TikTok
