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“For the first couple of years my course was half-and-half classical and jazz, and I had

the most awesome, world-class classical teachers, which was an otherworldly
experience, and really eye-opening,” enthuses Georgia. “Even though I’m so bad at

committing hours to practice, stuff like classical composition – learning how to write
fugue, how counterpoint works, I thought that was really interesting – the way these lines

work in music and stuff has definitely trickled down.”

Yet both members of Jockstrap are determined not to be defined by their shared

academic, classically-focused background.

“It’s a tool, the theoretical side,” says Georgia. “If you use it with your intuition, with your
ear… if something just comes out and you’re not sure what to do with it, you can use

theory to get you to here or there.”

“I think it’s just because that’s the way I was brought up to look at music,” agrees Taylor.

“I can’t tell any more. Without thinking about it, it just feeds into what you do.”

For those who’ve been following Jockstrap since their debut EP, 2018’s ‘Love Is The
Key To The City’, this new EP is a significant step forward. ‘Wicked City’ is bolder,

brasher and less inhibited than its predecessor – hardly a wallflower of a record in itself

– its constituent parts more vivid, its compositional twists and turns even wilder, its
contrasts sharper.

“I’m careful to think that every song you do is better than the last one,” Taylor asserts. “I

think we’ve done a really good job on this EP, and it feels honest to us now, and the first
EP feels honest to us then.”

Georgia concurs. “Lyrically it’s got a little less on-the-nose, and it’s getting better. On the
first EP, I kept it simple because I wasn’t as confident. But on this one everything’s

through-composed, I’m not worried about where I’m modulating to, or how it fits.

“I made the decision early on to write all the songs on this EP about men, but that didn’t
really happen…”