Jungle - Live at Manchester Academy

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JUNGLE
Live at Manchester Academy
Friday 15th February 2019

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In
July 2014, Jungle released their self-titled debut album. Featuring the
singles ‘Platoon’, ‘Busy Earnin’’, ‘Time’, ‘The Heat’ and ‘Julia’,
neo-soul classics all, it was the aspirational sound of young London, a
soundtrack of escapism, an unmistakable Jungle sound and a unique,
vivid, visual Jungle world. The whole thing was dreamed up by Josh “J”
Lloyd-Watson and Tom “T” McFarland, a production and
multi-instrumentalist duo who never expected to leave their bedroom
studios, far less become the core of a talent-filled seven-strong
collective that morphed into a killer live outfit. Cue online
word-of-mouth and IRL buzz, rave reviews, a Mercury Music Prize
nomination, songs of the summer (two summers, even), viral videos, Noel
Gallagher declaring the album “fucking amazing”, half a million sales,
burgeoning DJ careers, a global tour that lasted two solid years. It all
just happened.

Today, Jungle announce news of the follow-up to
that defining debut record. The album is titled For Ever and will be
released on 14th September via XL Recordings. If Jungle’s first album
was their imaginary soundtrack to the places they had never been, For
Ever is inspired by real life experiences of the places they’d dreamed
of for so long. Swapping Shepherds Bush for the Hollywood Hills, J and T
set up camp in Los Angeles to write and record the album. Over time
however, their romanticization of The Californian Dream clashed with the
reality of actually living it, the feeling of being adrift on the West
Coast compounded by the collapse of long-term relationships. Returning
home to London, they teamed up with highly regarded young producer Inflo
where they sought to create a "post-apocalyptic radio station playing
break up songs”, whittling down loads of ideas this concept spawned into
the core 13 tracks you have before you. That station and those songs
and that journey are the sound of Jungle’s second album For Ever. They
had to go away to come home. And what J and T lost in love, they gained
in music. For Ever is for real, deeper and higher, more intimate and
more expansive, feelgood and, just occasionally, feelbad. It is, then, a
proper second album.

For Ever Track List:

1. Smile
2. Heavy, California
3. Beat 54 (All Good Now)
4. Cherry
5. Happy Man
6. Casio
7. Mama Oh No
8. House In LA
9. Give Over
10. Cosurmyne
11. Home
12. (More and More) It Ain’t Easy
13. Pray

To coincide with news of their new album, Jungle today release two new
songs from the record: ‘Heavy, California’ and ‘Cherry’. Both songs are
available now via all digital services and are accompanied by two videos
directed by Josh Lloyd-Watson & Charlie Di Placido for the JFC
collective, available exclusively via Spotify and Apple Music
respectively. They’re set to build on the success of ‘Happy Man’ and
‘House In LA’, the first tracks to be revealed from the album in May.