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Jockstrap: Limitless future-pop
engineered to confound – “There are parts
that we don’t understand”
The London duo's new EP 'Wicked City' is bolder and brasher than anything about right now. Luke
Cartledge tries to make sense of it all
ByLuke Cartledge
1st June 2020
CREDIT: Maxwell Granger
The music that Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye make together as Jockstrap, though easy
enough lose oneself in, is much more difficult to understand. Their new EP ‘Wicked City
– debut on legendary Sheffield label Warp [Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus] – is as dense with
ideas as it is flighty and restless; plaintive and lush one moment, utterly chaotic the next.
It’s not that you can’t spot its referents and influences, or identify some of the moving
parts – it’s just that once you’ve got to the bottom of what’s going on in one section of a
track, Jockstrap have moved onto something else entirely. But if you’re struggling to
keep up, take solace in this: the pair behind the music aren’t always sure what’s going
on either.
