London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have today shared the video for ‘Greatest Hits’, taken from their critically acclaimed debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B – out now via Rough Trade Records. The video, directed by FKA Twigs’ Caprisongs visual collaborator Aiden Zamiri, charts a fictitious show trial between two eccentric pop icons and features a cast of cameos close to the Jockstrap project.
Jockstrap have just completed a sold-out UK tour and will tour North America for the very first time later this month and next – with almost every show sold-out in advance, including two at The Sultan Room in New York. Jockstrap will tour the UK again in the spring, with their show at the capital’s Heaven completely sold-out just a few weeks after being announced. Jockstrap have also announced their first shows in Australia for February and March next year. The UK shows were lauded by The Guardian and The Times in 4* reviews with the former describing it as “the perfect soundtrack for our fractured, idiosyncratic times.”
Director Aiden Zamiri had this to say: “I think Jockstrap are one of the most exciting bands in the world and I’m stoked we were able to make this video together. We wanted this to have a bit of a reflection on the time we live in now, whilst still having a sense of humor about it. Georgia and Taylor are geniuses, and I was so grateful to explore this mad story with them. We did our best to make it as legally accurate as possible (with a few artistic liberties) and this was possible thanks to Jean Lee, our barrister consultant who also played the judge.”
I Love You Jennifer B was been met with universal critical acclaim upon release in September this year; with 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 The Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times Culture, Rolling Stone UK, Dork, The Line Of Best Fit, and Gigwise, and further praise from The Guardian, Crack Magazine, Electronic Sound, Mixmag and more. Jockstrap’s singles ‘Glasgow’, ‘50/50’ and ‘Concrete Over Water’ from I Love You Jennifer B were also playlisted by BBC Radio 6 Music.
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. Their debut album I Love You Jennifer B is the culmination of five years of recorded work – including a clutch of singles, EPs and a mixtape – all of which have seen Jockstrap heralded as one of the most exciting new musical groups in recent memory.
Listen to I Love You Jennifer B Here
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)
