Meet London indie electronic pop duo jockstrapmusic1, who's taking us on a path of creative twists and turns with debut album 'I Love You, Jennifer B'
, which blends Ellery’s elegant vocals and Skye’s trippy electronic beats. It eventually ended up on 2018 EP“I really engaged with the sound, the production. It was everything I liked that I’d been listening to up until that point,” Ellery said over Zoom, seated next to her bandmate during a rehearsal break on a sunny London afternoon.
“I didn’t think either of us knew what it would sound like, and we still don’t really to this day when we go and work on a song.” The “melting pot” of Guildhall and constant exposure to creativity in every residence hall proved fruitful for the duo. Skye said it was “quite an exciting time to be around the people that we were around.” Their fateful meeting was a sea change from Ellery’s rural roots in southwest England and the London-born Skye’s childhood in the country’s Midlands region. London is the centerpiece of the duo’s first two EPs, but from the start, they thought about honing the Jockstrap sound through a full-length album. The group dove into, but like Jockstrap itself, the bedrock of the LP dates back further than that. “The songs were made over such a long period of time that we’d have like, a moment listening to a certain sort of music, and… then move on,” Skye said, noting the band’s myriad inspirations. As destiny would have it, Rough Trade first reached out to Jockstrap around 2017, playing with friends in various iterations. The group said playing as a two-piece gives them “a lot more space to perform.” If you dig around online, you can even see an early iteration of JockstrapIt felt natural, then, to eventually sign to British independent mainstay Rough Trade, which led to quite the milestone: the duo’s first-ever trip to America, for a label showcase at New York City’s famedLive, it can take some time to process what Jockstrap is doing, which isn’t a bad thing for a two-piece. Much like the group’s songs, plenty of sonic elements zip, dive, swirl, and mutate in impressive fashion. It’s fascinating and immediately engaging. If the duo were nervous, it didn’t show, although Ellery said the experience was “quite overwhelming.”hit the States in November for an extensive tour from Washington, D.C. to Brooklyn and out to Los Angeles. Both Skye and Ellery prefer to change their setlists frequently, curating a club-like show atmosphere best witnessed in a dark environment filled with pulsing strobes. Translating the at-times delicate, at-times frenetic and surging music of their catalog — as heard on— is a process both Ellery and Skye have honed across the years, taking inspiration from fellow experimental Brit James Blake. The sonic variety on Jockstrap’s debut hints at that inspiration while swerving its own way entirely, including the acoustic stylings of.”A friend stepped in to play guitar on that particular track, but Ellery continues to fine-tune her live guitar work, which can be heard on record on the intricate “Lancaster Court.” The LP isn’t without its share of highlights and potential bangers, including the club-ready thumping beats and characteristic multi-layered production of “50/50,” a song whose closest counterpart might be the dance-ready stylings of certain Yeah Yeah Yeahs tracks. “Concrete Over Water” could sum up Jockstrap the best: It’s a gorgeous six-minute epic that fuses bedroom pop with Georgia’s soaring vocals before dropping into a throbbing, thunderous beat about a third of the way through. Pay close attention to the LP and you’ll also hear spoken-word vocal samples, warbling synths and Ellery’s delicate, light-as-air vocals, all tinged with orchestral and baroque touches – and of course, some memorably intense electro beats. It’s reflective of the recording process: Parts of songs were taken from their original demos, some parts were recorded on the road, and the bulk of the work was simply done in locales like Skye’s bedroom. Future Jockstrap releases will certainly keep the listener guessing. For the time being, even Ellery and Skye themselves will have to embark on a journey of discovery to craft a new sonic blueprint. The two point to a recent festival set by the enigmatic, endlessly creative Björk as a touch of “transformative” inspiration, and both hope to bring Jockstrap to festival crowds next summer, too.
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