Post-breakup Jets to Brazil

Following the band’s breakup, Schwarzenbach moved to Brooklyn where he DJ ‘d and wrote freelance video game reviews for websites. He formed and fronted Jets to Brazil from 1997 to 2003, combining Britpop influences, piano ballads , and stark lyrics. Fans and critics, however, still associated him primarily with Jawbreaker and did not warm to his new project: “Schwarzenbach was so adored for what he had done that few were willing to allow him to gracefully move on”, writes Greenwald, “Jets to Brazil, though popular, has received unspeakably scathing reviews, boiling with the bitterness usually reserved for a cheating lover.”