Jungle (Jungle album)

Jungle is the debut studio album by London-based modern musical collective Jungle. It was released on 14 July 2014 through XL Recordings.

Jungle
Studio album by
Jungle
Released14 July 2014 (2014-07-14)
Genre
Length39:06
LabelXL Recordings
ProducerJungle
Jungle chronology
Jungle
(2014)		 For Ever
(2018)
Singles from Jungle
  1. "Platoon"
    Released: 16 December 2013
  2. "The Heat"
    Released: 16 December 2013
  3. "Busy Earnin'"
    Released: 7 April 2014
  4. "Time"
    Released: 8 September 2014

In September 2014, the album was shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize.[2]

Promotion

"Platoon" and "The Heat" were digitally released as the lead singles promoting the album on 16 December 2013.[3][4] The music video for "Platoon", which premiered on 4 June 2013, featured a 6-year-old B-girl named Terra,[5][6] while the video for "The Heat" featured British skate crew High Rollaz and was released on 1 October 2013.[6][7] Both videos were directed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch.[6]

On 28 February 2014, a music video for the third single, "Busy Earnin'", was released onto YouTube.[8] The single was released digitally on 7 April 2014, and in vinyl format on 15 April.[9][10] The song peaked at number 19 on the UK Indie Chart and at number 27 on Ultratip chart in Belgian Flanders region in March,[11][12] and at number 118 in France in July 2014.[13]

A music video for the fourth single, "Time", was released on 8 July 2014.[14] On 8 September, remixes of the song by Joe Goddard and LXURY were released onto iTunes.[15][16]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.1/10[17]
Metacritic72/100[18]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[19]
The A.V. ClubB−[1]
The Guardian[20]
The Independent[21]
The Irish Times[22]
Mojo[23]
NME8/10[24]
The Observer[25]
Pitchfork6.2/10[26]
Uncut6/10[27]

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.[18]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jungle.

No.TitleLength
1."The Heat"3:16
2."Accelerate"3:04
3."Busy Earnin'"3:01
4."Platoon"3:12
5."Drops"2:53
6."Time"3:33
7."Smoking Pixels"1:47
8."Julia"3:15
9."Crumbler"3:02
10."Son of a Gun"3:28
11."Lucky I Got What I Want"4:16
12."Lemonade Lake"4:19
Total length:39:06
No.TitleLength
13."Bonus Track" (unnamed, vinyl edition only)1:11
Total length:40:17

Personnel

Charts

References
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