
How DJing shaped Jungle’s approach to ‘Volcano’
DJing pushed Jungle towards self-created loops, club-informed electronics and a freer way of fitting styles together on their 2023 album ‘Volcano’.
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'Cherry' finds Jungle in the thick of heartbreak, cycling through the same refrain with the kind of hypnotic insistence that makes resignation sound like defiance. The song turns on a simple, brutal assertion: you're never going to change me, I was already changing. It's a breakup song that refuses the usual postures of devastation or anger, instead settling into something closer to self-preservation, a person drawing a line and holding it. The production sits somewhere between shuffling funk and tropical languor, all leaning whips and groove, the kind of track that sounds like it's falling apart and holding together at once. Jungle layer the vocals so they blur and repeat, turning the chorus into something almost meditative, a mantra you repeat until it stops hurting. The song acknowledges loss without drowning in it; there's a weariness to lines about wishing you could protect someone, about being wrong, about moving on. A Dork four-star record, 'For Ever' moves with this same balance of highs and lows, and 'Cherry' sits comfortably in that space where Jungle sound most themselves: confident enough to let a song breathe, assured enough to know when less is more.
"Cherry" is a single by JUNGLE, from the album For Ever, released 13th September 2018. The track is 3:16 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about JUNGLE.
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