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100
An astonishing debut, an intoxicating statement, impossibly ambitious, inventive and exhilarating. It’s quite the ride.
100
I Love You Jennifer B is unquestionably one of the best debut albums of the last five years.
100
The London duo’s relentless commitment to innovation will thrill newcomers and ardent fans alike.
100
There are ideas pouring out of Jockstrap’s debut. Somehow, they’re ideas that work together and grow more legs as you listen. It’s a labyrinth of a pop album.
90
Together, Ellery and Skye manage to combine soft, ethereal beauty and twisted electronic textures to create a sound that never relaxes ... A successfully adventurous debut that bears countless relistens.
90
Jockstrap’s experimental pop makes their debut I Love You Jennifer a bewildering yet rewarding listen. Jockstrap play with expectations to keep listeners on their toes.
90
I Love You Jennifer B is pop at its most baffling, but its considered arrangement keeps the album not just listenable, but thrilling, even as it dives off of various sonic cliffs into the unknown.
90
‘I Love You Jennifer B’ feels like everything that’s come before has just been a trial run. It’s bolder, more rewarding, and so much more cohesive.
86
Jockstrap have paved their own path in the world of music — bold experimentation paired with spectacular writing skills.
86
Jockstrap are masters of leaving us hanging, never letting their stories resolve in overly simplified happy endings. They always leave you wanting more – isn’t that what dreams are like, after all?
84
The full-length debut from the shapeshifting UK duo is a virtuosic display of theatrical mayhem, dazzling production, and surprisingly lustrous pop music.
80
London pair’s fizzy debut splices classic songwriting with electronic curveballs.
80
In the holes, Ellery’s vocals soothe as electronic production and orchestral elements saunter, the rests and pauses filled by sub-bass, glitches and tampered vocal samples.
80
One step ahead of their peers, and, quite possibly, technology as we know it, Jockstrap have a timeless quality, capturing the chaos, joy, uncertainty, intrigue, pain and romance of 2022, but also 1982 and maybe even 2032 like no one else ever has or will.
80
Despite some awkward sequencing and songwriting, I Love You Jennifer B is yet another promising debut from a budding experimental UK indie scene.
80
An oddball pop debut with plenty of beauty.
80
I Love You Jennifer B is a dramatic outing that combines the modern, the classical and everything else in between. You wonder, optimistically, what else is left? Where else can this duo go?
80
Together they make smart but unstudied pop music, as invigoratingly weird asit is instantly winning, stuffed with gleefully incompatible styles and with a broad emotional range.
80
I Love You Jennifer B is filled with freewheeling musical pivots that confidently cover an ambitious amount of territory and find Ellery and Skye coming into their own as decisive talents.
80
Across 10 tracks that total 44 minutes in length, Jockstrap transcend the limits that usually constrain debut albums – it surely is the most ambitious debut of 2022 so far.
80
Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye make thrillingly unpredictable music, and debut album I Love You Jennifer B stretches their limits even further.
70
This disregard for convention is what makes I Love You Jennifer B stand out from the unimaginative dross – an album that is restlessly inventive yet remains familiar and intimate, drawing you closer into its bright world.
40
I Love You Jennifer B’s tediums are many and its flourishes are too overbearing to offer reasonable placation ... a case study in misrealised talent; don’t hold your breath for Jennifers C thru Z.
It’s really cool, but unfulfilling. I have had this issue with Jockstrap in the past.
Concrete over Water is brilliant, and some songs here have some cool stuff to them, but the lead singer’s melancholic voice is just uninteresting to me. I don’t feel the project that much. I wish it clicked more but I don’t see myself returning despite enjoying the overall experience
Edit (68 -> 85): I was wrong about this one. What made me want to revisit it is listening to all ... read more
The best produced album of the year. Glitchy and punchy instrumentals with some nice folky breaks in between. What genre even is this? Like yeah it fits in the box of Art Pop and "Experimental" (which is a dumb genre name, NOT EVEN A DESCRIPTOR A GENRE). But it's so much more than that. The album has shit ton of different sounds and influences, ranging from Glitch to Chamber Pop. Also, when I say that it's the best produced album of the year I MEAN IT WITH EVERY BONE OF MY BODY. The ... read more
(78---> 84)
Another 2022 release that keeps growing on me. Makes me wish I didn't take last year for granted so much.
THIS ALBUM MAKES ME WANT TO RUN OUTSIDE AS FAST AS I CAN AND SCREAM NONSENSE. but then it sometimes makes me want to think about it’s lyrics and slower moments.
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Track List
| 1 | Neon 3:45 | 87 |
| 2 | Jennifer B 4:19 | 83 |
| 3 | Greatest Hits 4:27 | 87 |
| 4 | What’s It All About? 2:44 | 83 |
| 5 | Concrete Over Water 6:09 | 92 |
| 6 | Angst 3:01 | 78 |
| 7 | Debra 4:54 | 85 |
| 8 | Glasgow 5:34 | 88 |
| 9 | Lancaster Court 4:12 | 80 |
| 10 | 50/50 (Extended Mix) 5:03 | 83 |
Total Length: 44 minutes
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Added on: June 14, 2022