Producer Jungle Release date 14 July 2014 Genre Neo soul | Artist Jungle Label XL Recordings | |
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Jungle the heat
Jungle is the debut studio album by London-based modern musical collective Jungle. It was released on 14 July 2014 through XL Recordings.
Contents
In September 2014, the album was shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize.
Jungle time audio
Promotion
"Platoon" and "The Heat" were digitally released as the lead singles promoting the album on 16 December 2013. The music video for "Platoon", which premiered on 4 June 2013, featured a 6-year-old B-girl named Terra, while the video for "The Heat" featured British skate crew High Rollaz and was released on 1 October 2013. Both videos were directed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch.
On 28 February 2014, a music video for the third single, "Busy Earnin'", was released onto YouTube. The single was released digitally on 7 April 2014, and in vinyl format on 15 April. The song peaked at number 19 on the UK Indie Chart and at number 27 on Ultratip chart in Belgian Flanders region in March, and at number 118 in France in July 2014.
A music video for the fourth single, "Time", was released on 8 July 2014. On 8 September, remixes of the song by Joe Goddard and LXURY were released onto iTunes.
Critical reception
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.
Track listing
All tracks written by Jungle.
Songs
1The Heat3:16
2Accelerate3:05
3Busy Earnin'3:02