Jockstrap share cameo-laden music video for ‘Best Hits’
Jockstrap have shared a brand new video for ‘Best Hits’, a monitor lifted from their debut album ‘I Love You Jennifer B’.
The video, which premiered earlier right this moment (November 8), was directed by Scottish filmmaker Aidan Zamiri – greatest recognized for his work on the visuals for FKA twigs‘ ‘Caprisongs’ mixtape. It exhibits courtroom proceedings going down between a splintered pop duo, performed by DJ/author Princess Julia and actor John Foley. Jockstrap vocalist Georgia Ellery portrays a decide’s clerk within the video, whereas Jamie xx and Don Letts make cameos within the courtroom.
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In a press assertion, Zamiri expressed his pleasure at working with Jockstrap, who he described as “probably the most thrilling bands on this planet”.
“We wished this to have a little bit of a mirrored image on the time we dwell in now, while nonetheless having a way of humour about it,” he mentioned. “Georgia and Taylor [Skye] are geniuses, and I used to be so grateful to discover this mad story with them.”
Zamiri additionally famous that he and the manufacturing crew strived to make the courtroom scenes “as legally correct as attainable”, albeit with “just a few creative liberties” taken. “This was attainable because of Jean Lee, our barrister advisor who additionally performed the decide,” he mentioned.
‘Best Hits’ is the most recent single from ‘I Love You Jennifer B’, following final November’s ’50/50′, April’s ‘Concrete Over Water’ and June’s ‘Glasgow’. The album was launched in September, and acquired a five-star overview from NME upon launch.
“‘I Love You Jennifer B’ is the product of a voracious urge for food to search out the gaps in between the acquainted,” it learn. “[It’s] a file emblazoned with such pristine, disorienting, unsettling originality that in the first place, you don’t fairly know what to do with it.”