Jungle / Saturday 16th February 2019 / O2 Academy Leeds

SUPER Friendz Presents
Jungle
Saturday 16th February 2019
O2 Academy Leeds
6pm
14 +
£22.50

Tickets on sale Thursday 2nd August at DICE - UK, USA & France, Crash Records, Jumbo Records and SEE Tickets

JUNGLE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
FOR EVER RELEASED 14TH SEPTEMBER VIA XL RECORDINGS

WATCH THE ALBUM TRAILER HERE
2 BRAND NEW TRACKS "HEAVY, CALIFORNIA" AND "CHERRY" AVAILABLE TO HEAR RIGHT NOW

WATCH THE VIDEOS EXCLUSIVELY VIA SPOTIFY AND APPLE MUSIC RESPECTIVELY

WORLDWIDE TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED INCLUDING LONDON ALEXANDRA PALACE SHOW

EXCLUSIVE EARLY ACCESS TO TOUR PRESALE FOR FANS WHO PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM

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.