Jockstrap

If you only listened to the first 30 seconds of Jockstrap’s extraordinary debut album, you might deduce that I Love You Jennifer B is a gentle folk record. But Georgia Ellery’s lilting voice singing about hills over a gently discordant acoustic guitar is a feint. Stick with it just a few seconds more and you’ll find yourself in a musical landslide where everything from Game Boy SFX and deep, throbbing dubstep to classical violin and comedy vocal effects collide into each other – often within a single track.Ellery is…

A playlist of horror movie scores ushers Jockstrap on stage. “Can we have the house music off, please?” Georgia Ellery politely asks the sound engineer, as viscous, stabbing strings bleed into the title track from their debut album I Love You Jennifer B.As Jockstrap, Ellery and her bandmate Taylor Skye produce musical scrapbooks, songs in which they graft together their influences from retro soul to pulsing electronics. Recent music school graduates, the pair take sharp turns in their songwriting, through disco nostalgia,…

It’s the hottest day of the summer and Taylor Skye has found one of the few public spaces in Penzance that is safe from the midday glare: a graveyard. The electronic producer, one half of Jockstrap, leads us past a man sleeping off last night between the gravestones of St Mary’s church, towards a bench under a giant oak. Georgia Ellery, the group’s songwriter and vocalist, grew up a few streets away and approves of the location: “Good choice! This is where I had my first snog!”Jockstrap play fast and loose with pop. Their…