Tom McFarland and Josh Lloyd-Watson have known each other since they were nine years old, living next door to one another in London鈥檚 Shepherd鈥檚 Bush. That鈥檚 the familial bond that lies at the heart of the soul collective Jungle, not that you鈥檇 know it from seeing them onstage.
The Jungle experience is one of low-slung pre-disco funky music created on laptops but played (and sung) on real instruments for maximum warmth and immediacy, by a group who are concentrating incredibly hard on what they are doing. So rather than seeing Josh and Tom鈥攂etter known as J & T鈥攑rodding at screens, there鈥檚 seven-piece live band giving it their all with staggering intensity. Not that their recorded career is any less impressive. They were nominated for 大象传媒 Sound of 2014, their debut album Jungle was considered a front-runner for the 2014 Mercury Prize, and if you think you managed to get through last year without getting hooked on Busy Earnin鈥� blasting from video games, YouTube ads or your radio, you really can鈥檛 have been paying attention.
Tom McFarland and Josh Lloyd-Watson have known each other since they were nine years old, living next door to one another in London鈥檚 Shepherd鈥檚 Bush. That鈥檚 the familial bond that lies at the heart of the soul collective Jungle, not that you鈥檇 know it from seeing them onstage.
The Jungle experience is one of low-slung pre-disco funky music created on laptops but played (and sung) on real instruments for maximum warmth and immediacy, by a group who are concentrating incredibly hard on what they are doing. So rather than seeing Josh and Tom鈥攂etter known as J & T鈥攑rodding at screens, there鈥檚 seven-piece live band giving it their all with staggering intensity. Not that their recorded career is any less impressive. They were nominated for 大象传媒 Sound of 2014, their debut album Jungle was considered a front-runner for the 2014 Mercury Prize, and if you think you managed to get through last year without getting hooked on Busy Earnin鈥� blasting from video games, YouTube ads or your radio, you really can鈥檛 have been paying attention.
