Jungle (Jungle album)

Jungle
Studio album by Jungle
Released 14 July 2014 (2014-07-14)
Genre Neo-soul
Label XL Recordings
Producer Jungle
Singles from Jungle
  1. "Platoon"
    Released: 16 December 2013
  2. "The Heat"
    Released: 16 December 2013
  3. "Busy Earnin'"
    Released: 7 April 2014
  4. "Time"
    Released: 8 September 2014

Jungle is the debut studio album by London-based modern musical collective Jungle. It was released on 14 July 2014 through XL Recordings.

In September 2014, the album was shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize.[1]

Promotion

"Platoon" and "The Heat" were digitally released as the lead singles promoting the album on 16 December 2013.[2][3] The music video for "Platoon", which premiered on 4 June 2013, featured a 6-year-old B-girl named Terra,[4][5] while the video for "The Heat" featured British skate crew High Rollaz and was released on 1 October 2013.[5][6] Both videos were directed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch.[5]

On 28 February 2014, a music video for the third single, "Busy Earnin'", was released onto YouTube.[7] The single was released digitally on 7 April 2014, and in vinyl format on 15 April.[8][9] The song peaked at number 19 on the UK Indie Chart and at number 27 on Ultratip chart in Belgian Flanders region in March,[10][11] and at number 118 in France in July 2014.[12]

A music video for the fourth single, "Time", was released on 8 July 2014.[13] On 8 September, remixes of the song by Joe Goddard and LXURY were released onto iTunes.[14][15]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic72/100[16]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[17]
Clash7/10[18]
The Guardian[19]
NME8/10[20]
The Observer[21]
Pitchfork6.2/10[22]

Upon its release, Jungle received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72, based on 21 reviews.[16]

Track listing

All tracks written by Jungle. 

No. Title Length
1. "The Heat"   3:16
2. "Accelerate"   3:04
3. "Busy Earnin'"   3:01
4. "Platoon"   3:12
5. "Drops"   2:53
6. "Time"   3:33
7. "Smoking Pixels"   1:47
8. "Julia"   3:15
9. "Crumbler"   3:02
10. "Son of a Gun"   3:28
11. "Lucky I Got What I Want"   4:16
12. "Lemonade Lake"   4:19
13. "Bonus Track (unnamed, vinyl edition only)"   1:11

Personnel

Jungle
  • Josh Lloyd-Watson
  • Tom McFarland


Additional musicians[23]
  • Rudi – vocals
  • F. Maccoll – guitar
  • D. Whalley – percussion
  • G. Day – drums

Additional personnel[23]
  • Jungle – design, production
  • David Wrench – mixing
  • Mandy Parnell – mastering
  • Imran Ahmed – A&R
  • Phil Lee – design
  • Oliver Hadlee Pearch – photography

Charts

Charts (2014) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[24] 20
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[25] 21
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[26] 38
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[27] 28
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[28] 42
French Albums (SNEP)[29] 42
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[30] 43
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[31] 34
Scottish Albums (OCC)[32] 25
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[33] 22
UK Albums (OCC)[34] 7
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[35] 1
US Billboard 200[36] 84

References

  1. "2014 Shortlist - Barclaycard Mercury Prize". Barclaycard Mercury Prize. September 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  2. "Platoon / Drops - Single by Jungle". iTunes. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  3. "The Heat / Lucky I Got What I Want - Single by Jungle". iTunes. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  4. "Jungle - Platoon". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 Newman, Jason (8 July 2014). "Funk Collective Jungle Prep Debut Album With Joyful New Video 'Time'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  6. "Jungle - The Heat". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  7. "Jungle - Busy Earnin'". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  8. Breihan, Tom (3 March 2014). "JUNGLE. – "Busy Earnin'" Video". Stereogum. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  9. "Busy Earnin [VINYL] by Jungle". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  10. "2014-03-15 Top 40 Independent Singles Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  11. "Discografie Jungle [UK]". Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  12. "Discographie Jungle [UK]". Lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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  14. "Time (Joe Goddard Remix) - Single by Jungle". iTunes. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  15. "Time (LXURY Remix) - Single by Jungle". iTunes. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  16. 1 2 "Reviews for Jungle by Jungle". Metacritic. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  17. Thomas, Fred. "Jungle - Jungle". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  18. Zadeh, Joe (3 July 2014). "Jungle - Jungle". Clash. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  19. MacInnes, Paul (10 July 2014). "Jungle: Jungle review – enigmatic dance outfit lose a little mystique". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  20. "Jungle - 'Jungle'". NME. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  21. Empire, Kitty (13 July 2014). "Jungle review – self-titled slice of accomplished search-engine-unfriendly disco-funk". The Observer. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  22. Beta, Andy (14 July 2014). "Jungle: Jungle". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  23. 1 2 "Jungle - Jungle | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  24. "Jungle – Jungle". Australiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  25. [http://www.ultratop.be/nl/album/3c454/Jungle-[UK]-Jungle "Jungle – Jungle"]. Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  26. [http://www.ultratop.be/fr/album/3c454/Jungle-[UK]-Jungle "Jungle – Jungle"]. Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  27. "Jungle – Jungle". Danishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  28. "Jungle – Jungle". Dutchcharts.nl. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  29. "Jungle – Jungle". Lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  30. "Jungle – Jungle". Officialcharts.de. GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  31. "Jungle – Jungle". Charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  32. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  33. [http://hitparade.ch/album/Jungle-[UK]/Jungle-246868 "Jungle – Jungle"]. Swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  34. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  35. "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  36. "Jungle Album & Song Chart History". Billboard 200 for Jungle. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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