Photography Eddie WhelanMusicNew Music FridayNew Music Friday: 6 albums to stream this weekActress shares a new album, Jockstrap return with a remix record, and Kevin Abstract is back with a grungy releaseShareLink copied ✔️November 3, 2023MusicNew Music FridayTextGünseli Yalcinkaya For a duo who once said that their music “sounds like switching between all of the open tabs on your computer”, Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) are known for their shape shifting approach to alt-pop. Their 2022 debut, I Love You Jennifer B – shortlisted for a Mercury Prize – was a sonic funhouse of styles and sounds; an unpredictable and ambitious mix of songwriting and dance music (and dubstep and folk and jazz) that took the pair’s classical training at London’s prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and stretched it to delightful extremes. Their follow-up I<3UQTINVU (shorthand for ‘I Love You Cutie, I Envy You’) is a remix album, but not in the conventional sense. The songs don’t even have the same names, with new titles based on the chopped-up samples that characterise the record. Featuring the likes of Coby Sey, Kirin J Callinan and Ersatz, the album is a whacky reimagining of their debut, built from a smattering of vocal cuts and chopped-up acoustics set against Skye’s warped electronics. “It's like eating too much and then throwing up and this is what comes out,” said Skye in a statement. “It's a weird feeling but also really fun. I felt very happy making some of this music and live it will be quite the show.” Elsewhere, Actress shares a new album, Bar Italia return with another project, and Kevin Abstract returns with a grungey record. ACTRESS, LXXXVIII BAR ITALIA, THE TWITS DOUNIA, DOUNIA JOCKSTRAP, I<3UQTINVU KEVIN ABSTRACT, BLANKET TKAY MAIDZA, SWEET JUSTICE Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREBjörk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authorities‘Her dumbest album yet’: Are Swifties turning on Taylor Swift?ZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney IB Kamara on branching out into musicEnter the K-Bass: How SCR revolutionised Korean club culture‘Comic Con meets underground rap’: Photos from Eastern Margins’ day festWho are H.LLS? Get to know London’s anonymous alt-R&B trioTaylor Swift has lost her grip with The Life of a Showgirl ‘Cold Lewisham nights’: Behind the scenes at Jim Legxacy’s debut UK tour All the pettiest pop beefs of 2025Has the algorithm killed music discovery? What went down at Fari Islands Festival