I Love You Jennifer B - Jockstrap

The UK duo of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye have triumphantly arrived with their long-awaited debut album, I Love You Jennifer B. With the help of an 18-piece orchestra, Jockstrap manages to perfectly combine theatrical, electronic, and wispy yet slightly aggressive sounds into ten songs unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. The album takes the listener on a journey of different characters and plots and ends in a totally different soundscape than the beginning, though it is somehow cohesive. The six minute experience of the track “Concrete Over Water,” is synthy, fun, calm, moody, and unpredictable at the same time. The album is rife with contradictions and dialectics that all work out: it’s vintage and futuristic, structured and absurd, innovative without being overpowering or terrifying: it’s wild success of an ambitious project.