Jockstrap & Taylor Skye have today announced I<3UQTINVU, a fully remixed version of the Mercury Prize shortlisted 2022 album I Love You Jennifer B. I<3UQTINVU – I Love You Cutie, I Envy You – is set for release on November 3 via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control and its lead single ‘Red Eye (feat. IAN STARR)‘ is out now. I<3UQTINVU will be available on standard black vinyl and on limited edition red vinyl, complete with a perfume-scented inner bag.
The remix record is the brainchild of Skye, who was making multiple versions of the album’s original track listing to stay inspired during the writing of I Love You Jennifer B. The guest features on the remix record range from Ersatz, who inspired Skye to make music many years ago to IAN STARR who he only connected with online a few months ago.
Skye explains more about I<3UQTINVU, saying, “Some of these remixes are almost three years old and some are only six months old. I made most of them really quickly, in a day or so. It keeps me sane to do this whilst mixing the album. I don’t really remember making them. It’s like eating too much and then throwing up and this is what comes out. It’s a weird feeling but also really fun. I felt very happy making some of this music and live it will be quite the show.”
Commenting on ‘Red Eye’, collaborator IAN STARR adds: “I love making songs that push the limits of my vocality and energy, and I went all-out in efforts to craft the craziest performance possible on ‘Red Eye’. Whenever I write a song, I always have the live audience in mind; performing this at my first festival with Jockstrap made me feel really great about the result! The crowd’s energy felt amazing & I’m so excited to perform it for everyone who comes to the U.S. tour!” STARR also performs in the accompanying video, shot by Liam Noonan, Starr, and Jockstrap’s Georgia Ellery & Taylor Skye at Connect Festival.
I Love You Jennifer B was met with universal critical acclaim upon release; attaining perfect 5* reviews from Loud And Quiet and NME, Pitchfork’s Best New Music (8.4) and The Quietus’ Album Of The Week accolades, 4.5* from DIY and CLASH, 4* from Dork, Gigwise, MOJO, Rolling Stone UK, The Line Of Best Fit, The Sunday Times Culture, The Telegraph, Uncut, and The Times, and further praise from The Guardian, Crack Magazine, Electronic Sound, Mixmag, and more. Since release the band have featured as cover stars at Dork and The Forty Five Magazine, featured as a MOJO Rising artist, and landed multi-page fashion editorials in i-D, The FACE and AnOther magazines.
I Love You Jennifer B also registered in Albums of the Year lists at CLASH (#3), Dazed (#7), DIY (#1), Electronic Sound (#10), Gigwise (#9), Crack (#16), Metro, MOJO (#36), NME (#14), The Forty Five (#1), The Guardian (#7), The i, The Quietus (#1), The Skinny (#7), The Times, Time Out (#8), Uncut (#26), Loud And Quiet (#2), and more.
Pre-order / Pre-save I<3UQTINVU: https://js.ffm.to/i-3uqt
Jockstrap – ‘Red Eye’ (feat. IAN STARR) (Official Video)
Stream / Download: https://js.ffm.to/redeye
Praise for I Love You Jennifer B
“One of the year’s most sonically ambitious albums… it eagerly invites you into their strange, emotive an intensely kinetic world” – The Quietus Album Of The Year
“Unquestionably one of the best debut albums of the last five years.” – Loud And Quiet, 10/10
“Taking experimental pop to new heights, Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye’s bewilderingly brilliant I Love You Jennifer B is one of the best debuts you’ll hear this year.” – NME, 5*
“A successfully adventurous debut that bears countless relistens.”
– CLASH, 4½*
“The combination of Georgia Ellery’s stunning vocal and Taylor Skye’s mind is pure alchemy”
– DIY, 4½*
“A virtuosic display of theatrical mayhem, dazzling production, and surprisingly lustrous pop music”
– Pitchfork Best New Album, 8.4
“Strange and stunning… a beguiling debut” – The Sunday Times Culture, 4*
“A dramatic outing that combines the modern, the classical and everything else in between”
– The Telegraph, 4*
“This deserves to win the (non-existent) Kate Bush award for weird pop album of the year” – The Times, 4*
“Jockstrap’s most boundary-pushing work yet.” – Dork, 4*
“The songwriting of I Love You Jennifer B houses a foundation many could only dream of for a debut record” – Gigwise, 4*
“Perpetually committed to pushing boundaries and creating music unlike anything else released before it” – The Line Of Best Fit, 4*
“Thrillingly unpredictable” – Rolling Stone UK, 4*
“Jockstrap have refined their knack for marrying seemingly disparate elements with rule-breaking
delight” – MOJO, 4*
“Smart but unstudied pop music, as invigoratingly weird as it is instantly winning” – Uncut – 4*
“A kaleidoscopic mosaic of glorious chaos” – The Guardian
“Startlingly good… an astounding debut” – Electronic Sound
Jockstrap – I<3UQTINVU
1. Sexy (feat. Babymorocco)
2. All Roads Lead To London (feat. Coby Sey & Ersatz)
3. Good Girl
4. I Touch
5. I Feel
6. Pain Is Real
7. Red Eye (feat. IAN STARR)
8. I Noticed You (feat. Kirin J Callinan)
9. Sexy 2
Jockstrap – I<3UQTINVU is out November 3
via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records.
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