London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have today announced their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B for release on 9 September via Rough Trade Records. The announcement comes accompanied by the record’s lead single ‘Glasgow’ and its vlog-like, fantastical music video – featuring Taylor’s compelling portrayal of a mythical pixie-ish creature – which was shot, directed and edited by Jockstrap themselves. I Love You Jennifer B is available to pre-order on all formats and pre-save on all platforms HERE.
Jockstrap previously hinted at I Love You Jennifer B’s impending release with their previous singles ‘50/50’ and ‘Concrete Over Water’. Both of which were playlisted by BBC Radio 6 Music and were subject of unanimous acclaim at national and international press. The cosmic accompanying video for ‘Concrete Over Water’ was premiered at an exclusive screening at The Castle Cinema, Hackney, followed by another of Jockstrap’s iconic parties at The Glove That Fits. Jockstrap have also caught the attention of cultural icons like Chanel (soundtracking their Fall-Winter 2020/21 Haute Couture collection campaign video), Stella McCartney (who chose ‘50/50’ to soundtrack her 2022 Paris Fashion Week Winter show), and fellow artists in equal measure (including Jamie XX, Anna Meredith, Iggy Pop, GFOTY, Kelly Moran, Oneohtrix Point Never to name a few).
Commenting on the upcoming album release, Jockstrap’s Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye said: “I Love You Jennifer B is a collection of Jockstrap tracks that have been 3 years in the making. Everything on it is pretty singular sounding so we hope there is a track on there for everyone and something that speaks to you and says ‘I’m a banger.’” Taylor added of ‘Glasgow’: “‘Glasgow’ is our coming of age, moving forward, long-distance, travelling, beautiful bosk, wonderful thicket song.” And Georgia said of the song’s subject: “Glasgow is a great city, perhaps my favourite in the UK. Only downside is that it’s so damn cold all the time.”
Jockstrap formed in 2017 after Georgia (also of Black Country, New Road) met Taylor at the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama where they were studying jazz and electronic composition respectively. Generally speaking their modus operandi has been to produce a violently spatially and temporally disrupted form of pop music which sometimes sees them gleefully break apart existing styles only to expertly reassemble them and other times sees them mint entirely fresh genres. Both of them grew up playing and loving classical music and picked up a bug for jazz in college, but their other shared interests include Disclosure and Mica Levi, with Taylor having a penchant for Bob Dylan, and Georgia for Joni Mitchell. They have released a clutch of singles, EPs and a mixtape over the last five years already giving rise to something of a press narrative: Georgia sings a classic pre-rock & roll orchestral lounge pop song while Taylor forces it through a post-dubstep blender mixing old with new. But this new album blasts that simplistic reductionism to smithereens.
Much has been made recently of the resurgence in interest in the song ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’ via its appearance on the Stranger Things 4 soundtrack but Jockstrap are the only young artists in the UK (both are 24) who currently have the same vision for bending classic pop into wonderful new shapes that Kate Bush had during the mid-80s. Jockstrap effortlessly capture the chaos, joy, uncertainty, intrigue, pain and romance of 2022 like no other.
Jockstrap – Glasgow (Official Video)
Stream / Download: https://js.ffm.to/gl
Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B
1. Neon
2. Jennifer B
3. Greatest Hits
4. What’s It All About?
5. Concrete Over Water
6. Angst
7. Debra
8. Glasgow
9. Lancaster Court
10. 50/50 (Extended)
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