I feel it, and that’s what this record is about. There’s an element of excitement, especially when you know it’s good. It’s everything we wanted our music to be in the beginning, but executed sonically. When I look back on previous records there are songs which I would definitely take off now, but I just don’t think there is one on this. This third one’s brimming with confidence and we’re just proud and really excited for people to hear the songs. The second one came with a lot of pain and heartbreak and it was difficult to make, so it was a bit like, eh, maybe we didn’t get that one right. The first one… there was a naivety to it.
“Ultimately,” Lloyd-Watson says, “anything we make is us.” It’s how you get an album on which a chest-swelling disco sermon (“ Keep Moving ”) can share space with a hip-hop track featuring rapper Bas (“ Romeo ”) and a beachy rock song (“ Truth ”) - all different sounds, yet all still decidedly Jungle. That newfound freedom allowed the duo to expand upon what Jungle can sound like and how they can work: quickly, intuitively and without rules. Lloyd-Watson and McFarland left XL and formed their own label, Caiola Records, where they now have full control over their music. 13), the duo are in a much happier place, both musically and personally. On Jungle’s third album, Loving In Stereo (out Aug. and was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. After signing with XL Recordings later that year, Jungle released their 2014 self-titled debut album, which went gold in the U.K. Scarred by the experience but determined to make a fresh start, they released early Jungle singles “ Platoon ” and “ The Heat ,” hooking audiences on their quirky, dance-focused, Adidas-obsessed music videos. Friends since their school days, they had previously joined a band called Born Blonde, which was signed to (and then dropped by) a major label before their first release. When Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland started Jungle in 2013, they still felt that they had something to prove.
“Tolle says how we subscribe to our own thoughts and that’s what creates our egos: what we tell ourselves about our stories and who we are,” he explains, “that they don’t really mean much, so we can let go of them and be essentially free from these stories of what we tell ourselves and what we’re capable of.” During this time, he says, he has achieved a personal awakening, thanks in part to reading spiritual author Eckhart Tolle. “Freedom,” Josh Lloyd-Watson muses, “is in the mind.” Over Zoom, the British producer, multi-instrumentalist and one-half of the modern soul duo Jungle is imparting the spiritual lessons he has absorbed over the past year-and-a-half.
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