Jupe Jupe Turns Shadow Into Lift on King of Sorrows

King of Sorrows arrived on February 27, 2026 as an eight-song album from Jupe Jupe, the Seattle quartet of My Young, Bryan Manzo, Patrick Partington, and Jarrod Arbini. On the Seattle quartet’s latest LP, crooning vocals, saxophone flashes, and synth-driven noir collide in songs that feel both tightly wound and expansively cinematic

Jupe Jupe lace crooning vocals, jagged guitars, pulsating beats, and saxophone into songs that sound classic and modern at once. On the opening “Haunting,” I hear bouncy new-wave propulsion. “A Game of Wait and See” opens into a frantic, carnival-like rush. “Down with the Setting Sun” sinks into cinematic gloom. And “Nothing Left to Come” slows everything into a more liquid melancholy. What impresses me most is how tightly the album is built. The textures stay clean and the drama stays legible. Even when the arrangements turn grand, they remain focused. By the time “Casualty of Love” swells at the end, the emotional scale finally matches the atmosphere.

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