Jockstrap have shared the latest track from their forthcoming remix album, I<3UQTINVU.
New single ‘Good Girl’ is a riveting dance track that was inspired by Taylor Skye’s favourite electronic acts growing up such as Disclosure and James Blake. It’s the latest taste of forthcoming remix album <3UQTINVU – I Love You Cutie, I Envy You – which is a fully reworked version of Jockstrap’s Mercury Prize-shortlisted album, I Love you Jennifer B. I<3UQTINVU is set for release on 3 November via Rough Trade Records. Until then, check out the track and video for ‘Good Girl’, directed by and featuring Esme Creed-Miles. Discussing the track’s video, Creed-Miles has said: “Taking Georgia [Ellery’s] initial concept of a girl dancing and using her lyrics for inspiration, I wanted to make something sexy, pining and internal, and to create a scene of privacy. “It’s a glimpse into the urgency of dancing alone, the onanistic and liberated self that comes alive without an audience, or perhaps even acting out a version of the self which you want to share with someone special. I run out of superlatives when it comes to Jockstrap and it was an honour to make something for them.”
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The forthcoming remix record is the brainchild of Skye, who was devision multiple versions of the album’s original tracklisting to stay inspired while writing I Love You Jennifer B – the result of which is I<3UQTINVU. In our four-star review of I Love You Jennifer B, whynow wrote: “You feel there’s a kind of irony to the whole thing, as though the pair are saying, “Yeh, we can do that – so what?”.
“Take the accompanying press shots of them, for instance, with their fake hair casting them as old-fashioned film stars. Even the album’s title sounds like the impersonation of a (rather than an actual) film title.
“Then compare that to the almost laughably minimalist album cover. There’s a game of smoke and mirrors being had here. As if they know that in order to be new, they must compile a smorgasbord of lots that’s come before. It’s very clever. And it sounds terrific.”
New single ‘Good Girl’ is a riveting dance track that was inspired by Taylor Skye’s favourite electronic acts growing up such as Disclosure and James Blake. It’s the latest taste of forthcoming remix album <3UQTINVU – I Love You Cutie, I Envy You – which is a fully reworked version of Jockstrap’s Mercury Prize-shortlisted album, I Love you Jennifer B. I<3UQTINVU is set for release on 3 November via Rough Trade Records. Until then, check out the track and video for ‘Good Girl’, directed by and featuring Esme Creed-Miles. Discussing the track’s video, Creed-Miles has said: “Taking Georgia [Ellery’s] initial concept of a girl dancing and using her lyrics for inspiration, I wanted to make something sexy, pining and internal, and to create a scene of privacy. “It’s a glimpse into the urgency of dancing alone, the onanistic and liberated self that comes alive without an audience, or perhaps even acting out a version of the self which you want to share with someone special. I run out of superlatives when it comes to Jockstrap and it was an honour to make something for them.”
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The forthcoming remix record is the brainchild of Skye, who was devision multiple versions of the album’s original tracklisting to stay inspired while writing I Love You Jennifer B – the result of which is I<3UQTINVU. In our four-star review of I Love You Jennifer B, whynow wrote: “You feel there’s a kind of irony to the whole thing, as though the pair are saying, “Yeh, we can do that – so what?”.
“Take the accompanying press shots of them, for instance, with their fake hair casting them as old-fashioned film stars. Even the album’s title sounds like the impersonation of a (rather than an actual) film title.
“Then compare that to the almost laughably minimalist album cover. There’s a game of smoke and mirrors being had here. As if they know that in order to be new, they must compile a smorgasbord of lots that’s come before. It’s very clever. And it sounds terrific.”
