That’s the most powerful thing for me about what we do visually.” “Sometimes when I watch our videos, I learn new things about the music because of the way the dancer is expressing themselves. “Dance is the most instinctive way for humans to react to music,” he evaluates. As T states, it’s a 360 experience in which their music influences their visuals, which in turn lends fresh impetus to the music. If you chance upon ‘Busy Earnin’’ or ‘Casio’ on the radio, it’s impossible not to think of the striking, stylised choreography of their videos. They’re at the helm of a wider community of creatives. Sharing the ethos of Gorillaz or The Avalanches, the pair are Jungle’s producers, songwriters and musicians, but they’re also its directors, content creators and curators. The duo are the beating heart of the wider Jungle experience in which music, aesthetics and choreography co-exist as one distinctive artistic vision. J and T are world builders, a creative duo at the helm of an art project. Some things, however, are already perfect as they are. “We want it to be more raw, open, fun, enjoyable and entertaining, because that’s what music is,” adds J.
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“With this record we’ve learned to trust our instincts and go with our gut,” says T. Instead, they’ve taken their music back to their roots, to a time when they could make whatever music they liked without overthinking it. They’ve ditched the external influences, put commercial considerations on the backburner and ignored second guessing what people expect from them. They’re embracing the new-found freedom of launching their own label for the first time, a decision which has initiated their rebirth. Those two records have since amassed 750,000 equivalent album sales and close to a billion streams.Īs Loving in Stereo is an album that embodies what’s sure to be a heady summer of social liberation, it’s fitting that Jungle are experiencing something similar. Their Mercury Prize-nominated, Gold-certified debut and 2018’s follow-up For Ever both entered the UK Top 10. Jungle’s international following embraced their albums too. They’ve performed on five different continents, headlining as far afield as Sydney and Moscow, while also winning new fans at festivals such as Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. They went on to sell out London’s 10,000 capacity Alexandra Palace and the Hollywood Palladium some 9,000 kilometres from home.
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That was an ambition that they achieved when touring in support of their 2014 self-titled debut album. Less than a decade ago, Josh Lloyd and Tom McFarland were two friends with what felt like the impossible dream of one day seeing their name above the door of their local venue, Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
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With huge sing-a-long hooks, enormous synths, and the pulse-raising rush of pushing the BPM through the ceiling, Loving in Stereo is a record that dovetails with the release of UK’s lockdown, giving the listener one long hit of pure euphoria. The British producer duo have spent the last year locked in a studio and have emerged, delivering a huge soulful disco record for the post-social distancing age, with a life-affirming, dancefloor-igniting, sun-kissed celebration of all the things that make music irresistibly joyful. Jungle return in 2021 with their new album Loving In Stereo which is likely to become the soundtrack for a summer quite unlike any other.