Emerging electropop duo Jockstrap has released a new track entitled “Robert“. The track is the latest cut from their forthcoming second EP ‘Wicked City‘, which will drop on June 19 via iconic Sheffield-born label Warp.
Left and right, every music critic is now crazily hyped over newbie duo Jockstrap. (Please add the word ‘band’ after their name on your search engine trip if you do not wish to come across some jaw-dropping content.) They have gained so much attention thanks to their elctropop tunes that will leave you either confused or amazed, or both!
The duo consists of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye, students from legendary Guildhall. Ellery as a pursuer in a jazz degree specialised in violin while Skye as an electronic music student, they both met at the school and formed a band around 2018 to defy the concept of genre with the music mixed good amounts of strings, electronic beats, and weirdness (largely due to haunting half-whisper vocal of Ellery).
Thanks to their impressive talents, they were quickly signed to Kaya Kaya Records and released their debut EP ‘Love Is the Key to the City‘ in November 2018. They also went to perform at the Iceland Airwaves Festival and got approved by the queen of weirdness Björk herself.
After building up their name in the music scene, the London-based duo is now ready to share their second piece of work ‘Wicked City‘ under Warp Records, home of Flying Lotus and Kelela. The EP is, in their words, “a response” to the 2018 debut.
“The heavy autobiographical narrative of Wicked City is married to an expressive and limitless sound world; influenced by everything we have ever musically absorbed and moulded with a ‘fuck it’ attitude,” the two told Dork about ‘Wicked City‘
They continued, “Particular musical features of this record include classical composition, through-composed songwriting and the heavy influence of dubstep. There are multiple narratives to Wicked City: sanity to madness; realism to surrealism and innocence to experience. But when it comes down to it, it’s a breakup / breakdown record that presents how I dealt with losing what I had when I wrote ‘love is the key’.”
“Robert” is the latest track giving the taste of ‘Wicked City‘. The track is yet another brilliant tune filled with a techno-infused beat and loads of distorted sound effects with some inspirations from “Skrillex and Robert Mapplethorpe“. Think of a less chaotic and disturbing version of 100 gecs.
The song is also featured the help from Injury Reserve’s Steppa J Groggs, who Jockstrap went on tour with. Check out the track below.
‘Wicked City‘ is out tomorrow (June 19). The EP contains five new tracks, including previously-released “Acid” and “The City“.
