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Jungle // - Crack Magazine “It’s a bit like the car. 100 years ago everybody was going, ‘Oh my god! Look at this thing! We can get around’ then 100 years later we’re all going, ‘Oh my god. This is Josh, one component of the many who make up Jungle. The only peep of the full-length at the time of writing has been a 44-second trailer, where their gold plated logo bookends slow-motion clips of their celebrated music videos against a dusty spaghetti western whistle. It was these web-friendly micro-puzzles alongside a succession of irresistible singles like Platoon and The Heat that set the blogosphere ablaze, and that element of anonymity was petrol for the cyber-ascent. “That euphoric rush, for us every track on the album has that. While dodging the limelight, they also try and isolate themselves from other music to create a sound that owes no debts. The cinematic visuals that have tantalised fans since day one are paramount to Jungle’s manifesto. junglejunglejungle.com Words: Duncan Harrison