Jungle goes for the classic in “Sunshine”

In a society in which immediacy is prioritized and easy consumption is applauded over quality. Jungle With their new album, they deliver an ode to the things that survive the passage of time, so many generational battles, and even emerge stronger from it and with incalculable value. “Sunshine” It is a piece loaded with a special melancholy, fueled by a classic optimistic vein, which arises from the need to build something to fall back on in a completely uncertain future. A total search that tries to achieve that timeless vinyl from the collection that defines the band’s identity forever. A musical refuge full of never-ending stories that will pass from hand to hand like a music box rusted by rain and sun, bought in one of those gigantic antique stores in the south of England. One of those collector’s pieces that, when you take it home, makes you imagine how many lives its melody has accompanied.

“Sunshine” It thus captures the elegant, luminous and motivational atmosphere that has taken the band to the top. And it does so by proudly displaying the purest identity of the project without having to resort to new movements. They bet on the classic, they are filled with tropical sounds, funk soul and soul spirit; in a firm decision to try to certify and celebrate that what they have already achieved so far as a group has become part of the history of current music. In addition, they make Lydia Kitto visible for the first time as a main member of Jungle which now becomes a trio of good ideas.

The truth is that despite that hopeful vein to which they always turn. You could say that “Sunshine” It is not as happy an album as we think. Rather, it is contaminated by a nostalgia for the past that generates the need to go to moments in your memory when everything seemed to be much more idyllic (“All the memories creepin’ in, Moments when we were so happy. Oh, your love is sailin’ away, away from me and you’ve got no idea”). Moments in which love manifested itself more as a way of living, of being in the world, than something with an expiration date embroidered on the forehead. And if not, tell Bas, the only guest on the album, when together with Kitto he lets himself go and ends up entangled in desires for ‘what could have been and never was’ in that R&B cut that is “Romeo II”.

The launch of “Sunshine” It is also accompanied by the great value that has always been given to it Jungle to the connection between artistic disciplines; thus generating eleven video clips connected, of course, through dance to expose the most cinematic vision of this new installment. And in which it also seems that the earth, the asphalt, and its memory have a lot to say. A proposal that reinforces, on the other hand, that feeling of fluidity that the album itself has from beginning to end. A sensation that catches you and takes you floating among clouds from the beginning to the end without you barely realizing it. And when something is really good it always flies by and leaves you wanting more, to repeat.