Jungle | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 13 November 2014 - 11:41am

We nominated albums from the Mercury Music Prize shortlist 2014

Cover:

Artist:

Jungle

album-ID:

a_161

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Year:

2 014

Release-year:

0000

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Track-listing:

The Heat*Accelerate*Busy Earnin’*Platoon*Drops*Time*Smoking Pixels*Julia*Crumbler*Son Of A Gun*Lucky I Got What I Want*Lemonade Lake

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_62

Now-num:

2 014

Spotify-URL:

6IH6co1QUS7uXoyPDv0rIr

Grooveshark-URL:

Jungle/4370950

Short-title:

jungle

nominator-ID:

u_13

Meeting-date:

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

MusicBrainz-URL:

3c5834e7-75c5-46e6-be32-71e4909023f8

Wikipedia-URL:

Jungle_(Jungle_album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

jungle/jungle

Discogs-URL:

Jungle-Jungle-/master/708669

Allmusic-URL:

jungle-mw0002683818

rdio-URL:

Jungle/album/Jungle_1/

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
72

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

It's Jungle, Brothers.

1-3

10-12

Well this lot have a 'sound'. It's one of those things that I believe you'll either love or hate, as I think the falsetto vocals and soul-electro vibes would really irritate many, but I happen to find it really agreeable. There's a spattering of very decent tracks here. Having said that, there are also some rather poor fillers, and I have the impression the label probably rushed this out as they were clearly the 'big new thing'. They'll need a change of direction for the next album though, as this sound must have its limits. Enjoying stuff.
71

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

It's like a Jungle sometimes

6

There are some good songs on here and it eventually it did win me over, in spite of not really being an area of music I’m keen on: a soul, R&B, disco-lite vibe.

I don’t really like those high vocals, largely because it’s a very limited range of tone and that feels a bit frustrating after a while. Some vocals do get a bit of treatment, in a sort of James Blake style, but there’s not much of that.

There’s not much of a change in sound until you get past the first 3 or 4 tracks, then it starts to become more imaginitive. If it’s your kind of sound I can see how you would enjoy this, as the song writing is quite strong and varied and there are some nice little production touches.
70

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Junglist Massive

Surprisingly enjoyable mix of electronics, funk and blacked-up vocals.