{"id":110365,"date":"2023-11-10T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=110365"},"modified":"2023-11-10T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T18:35:28","slug":"jockstrap-i3uqtinvu","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/jockstrap-i3uqtinvu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jockstrap – I<3UQTINVU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jockstrap’s new album is 31 minutes of unbridled chaos. The \u201cremix\u201d album by the British electro-pop duo is almost unrecognizable from their 2022 album I Love You Jennifer B<\/em>.\u00a0Georgia Ellery is the vocalist and strings player with Taylor Skye as the producer of the crudely named group.\u00a0
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On I<3UQTINVU<\/em>, (I love you cutie I envy you), Taylor Skye had a full year to make their debut album as weird and distorted as possible\u2014and he took full<\/em> advantage of the time.\u00a0It\u2019s almost a disservice to call this a remix album. The album stands alone as an independent project. It\u2019s a little treasure hunt trying to figure out the origin of each renamed track entirely different than the original.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite this being Skye\u2019s vision, Georgia Ellery is all over the album with her hauntingly beautiful vocals and string arrangements. But this time it\u2019s layered over glitchy dubstep.\u00a0Some of the songs on the new album are more recognizable than others. \u201cJennifer B,\u201d the title track from their 2022 album, has evolved into the epic club banger \u201cGood Girl.\u201d
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\u201cGlasgow\u201d however remained relatively untouched in \u201cI Touch.\u201d Each song brings elements of a completely different genre with it. It oscillates so quickly from exciting and intense to deeply melancholic.\u00a0During the opening track \u201cSexy,\u201d featuring Babymorocco, one experiences that full circle within the same song. Such an initially upbeat fun tune ends oddly self-reflective.\u00a0
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You don\u2019t have time to ponder what exactly happened before you\u2019re plunged into \u201cConcrete Over Water,\u201d reimagined as \u201cAll roads lead to London\u201d with Coby Sey and ERSATZ features. \u201cWhen in Rome, anything goes,\u201d as it says and it\u2019s evident Skye agrees. It would feel like a disrespectful bastardized version of the original if it wasn\u2019t so earnest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Songs\u00a0\u201cRed Eye\u201d and, \u201cI Notice You\u201d bring simultaneously dark but fun energy that you wouldn\u2019t even know was missing from I Love You Jennifer B<\/em>.\u00a0The album ends with the Joni Mitchell-esque track, \u201cSexy 2.\u201d The dichotomy of Ellery and Skye is most noticeable here. You remember just how deeply talented Ellery is and just how much Skye had to chop everything up and piece it back together to create a mutation of their previous album.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two met at London\u2019s prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Their work breaks all the rules of music in a way that only someone with the deepest understanding of those rules could do. Not unlike Ellery\u2019s work as a founding member of Black Country New Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In many ways, Skye attacked what they created with I Love You Jennifer B<\/em> with no fear of imperfection making a grittier rawer iteration of their orchestral pop masterpiece. In others, it feels like someone reeling him back a little bit would have made the whole album a bit more cohesive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This album is more than just a morsel to tide Jockstrap fans over until their next album. It\u2019s a completely new creation. If I<3UQTINVU<\/em>, is evidence of the direction the duo is going, the next album is just going to get weirder. Whether you like it or not. \u00a0
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