Jockstrap

With Ellery and Skye being influenced superficially by dance and electronic acts, including James Blake, Jockstrap falls into his genre. Opener "Neon" was built upon the crude classification with an acoustic opening that developed with synthetic beats and a gorgeous cacophony of an eight-piece string ensemble.

It’s easy to mistake Jockstrap for a band that doesn’t know what they want to be. The duo, composed of Black Country, New Road violinist and backing vocalist Georgia Ellery and virtuoso DJ and producer Taylor Skye, burst onto the indie scene last year with their erratic debut full-length

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