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Jun 17, 2020Every second of ‘Wicked City’ feels meticulously thought through, the huge breadth of sonic terrain the duo cover the result of real care and attention paid at every juncture.
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Jun 24, 2020Wicked City proves that Jockstrap have no shortage of creativity, as these five tracks have more than enough ideas to fill a whole album. So, it’ll be fascinating to see how they do approach a full-length, which hopefully isn’t too far away.
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Jul 30, 2020A direct response to the band’s dreamlike debut, Wicked City is a venomous inversion of the very world the group strived to create; where there was once playfulness, there is now fiendishness. It’s a frenetic and lively record, for not once does it stay too long in one place.
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Jul 15, 2020Wicked City proves that Jockstrap have nothing if not range, and secures their place as one of the UK’s most intriguing new bands.
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Jun 19, 2020‘Wicked City’ is just a tiny slice of what’s to come, leaving a super sweet taste in our mouths.
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Jun 17, 2020Jockstrap sound like nobody else at the moment, and they’ve barely started.
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Jun 17, 2020Ellery and Skye are in their fourth year of music school—and they are still finding their way. But when they nail it, as on “The City,” their first-thought-best-thought creative bursts sound not just thrilling but genuinely new. For a group so steeped in retro modes, that’s no small thing.
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Jul 16, 2020Even more than before, they run through a gamut of styles and sounds, sometimes gracefully, sometimes forcefully, but still, always seductively. Truly, they treat Wicked City as an unfolding of boundaries.
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Jun 17, 2020Wicked City explores the extreme limits of how far a pretty song can be mangled until it crumbles completely. When the experiments are at their most successful, they can be truly transcendent.