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Review: Former Mercury Music Prize nominees Jungle (AKA Tom McFarland and Joshua Llloyd-Watson) are in a pleasingly positive mood on their latest full-length, Loving in Stereo. Beginning with a wide-eyed slab of string-laden, beat-free pop, the album sees the pair confidently strut through groovy, often lusciously orchestrated numbers that giddily join the dots between blue-eyed soul, celebratory disco, hip-hop, laidback 1970s funk rock, 1960s beat music, cheery synth-pop, fuzzy indie-pop and much more besides. It's an undeniably sunny and accessible sound that somehow manages to sound utterly dancefloor-friendly despite largely not being aimed at clubs. It's the kind of album we'll no doubt see place highly in the end of year lists of broadsheet journalists and young NME scribes.
Loving in Stereo

Review: Dance pair Tom McFarland and Joshua Lloyd-Watson aka Jungle cut loose on this, their third and most evocative album to date. It is a record packed with the sort of good time grooves and wall to wall party tunes we all want to hear after such a dark 18 months or so. There are plenty of heart on sleeve tunes, hooky top lines and warm, soaring summer chords that are designed to be heard outdoors, on a massive festival sound system with thousands of people singing along next to you. Some slower, dubbed out rhythms provide a nice counter to stop things growing too saccharine, and overall it add up to a great listen.

Review: Londoners Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland mix up funk, set soul, dance and nu-disco for a fourth album here in Volcano. They draw on some top-notch collaborators along the way - Erick the Architect, Channel Tres, Roots Manuva, Mood Talk and Bas - and wrote most of it while on tour to support their last album. They say it is the most honest album of their career to date and it is indeed a little more song-based and soulful. The sounds are free and the energy is still explosive so the tracks are sure to work just as well in the live area as at home.

Review: Acclaimed UK duo Jungle bring to Volcano the same sense of free-spirited energy that made their previous album Loving In Stereo such a hit. Much of this one was written while the duo was on tour, staying in an airbnb in Los Angeles, before they head to record it back in London at their favourite Studio B in Metropolis Studios. There is a wider variety of voices on this record with Erick the Architect as well as a reunion with Bas for 'Pretty Little Thing' who was last heard on the single 'Romeo.' As well as that, Roots Manuva, Channel Tres and Jnr Wiilliams also feature.