Then this third one is the realisation of everything that we’ve ever tried to do.” “The first was like a blueprint for something,” Lloyd explained, “and then the second one was like trying to do something new but not let go of the first one too much. Reflecting on 2018’s ‘For Ever’, the band described the album as a halfway point between where they’d come from on their debut and where they wanted to go in the future, all while terrified of losing the fans they’d beckoned in with early hits like ‘Time’ and ‘Busy Earnin”. It’s all kind of chaotic and magical, and I think that that’s why there’s that energy to the record – everything just went up a level.” The pressure’s on because you’ve only got a week, and you’ve got string sections coming in, you’ve got all these parts. “We went into The Church studio in London,” McFarland explained, “which for us is a big move because it’s us opening ourselves up. ‘Loving In Stereo’ also sees the duo breaking away from the rigid structures they’d employed for the creation of their first two albums.
“‘Can we put other people’s voices on our tracks?'” The answer, when it came, was definitive: “Of course we can. “We do ask ourselves those questions,” McFarland added regarding the prospect of wider collaboration. The new album sees the pair invite guest vocalists for the first time, with Swiss-Tamil artist Priya Ragu adding vocals on ‘Goodbye My Love’ and US rapper Bas adding new textures on ‘Romeo’. I kind of can’t wait to piss some Jungle fans off with it.” That song was a little bit of a trap that we wanted to put on the album. “And then it slowly gets this energy to it, and it works. “‘Month of May’ was like, ‘Oh, this isn’t Arcade Fire? What are they doing?'” Lloyd added. “It’s like what ‘Month of May’ was on ‘The Suburbs’,” Lloyd said as a way of comparison, likening it to the change of pace represented on the Canadian band’s fiery punk curveball. The band’s evolution is shown most strikingly on ‘Truth’, which skips along with sun-soaked melodies that recall The Beach Boys. If you go back and compare it to the first record, they feel smaller and more introverted. “I really think that these are the most Jungle songs we’ve made,” Lloyd said, with bandmate Thomas McFarland agreeing: “ feels like what we’ve always had in our heads. While albums one and two saw the band working within a structured template, their third effort sees them significantly expanding their horizons, and blowing the idea of what a Jungle song can be wide open.
Jungle’s ‘Loving In Stereo’ arrives three years after second album ‘For Ever‘, and sees the duo settling comfortably into their skin.
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