Unforced sessions like these “start a thread that might inspire something else”, he says. Josh, the more talkative of the two, then explains how he set up a microphone and started recording the wild-sounding slides and wahs he played with the EBow – a handheld electronic guitar ‘bow’. He beams at Tom and chuckles: “Your mum brought round a box with a Roland SP-404, an old Game Boy, a Tascam four-track and a little EBow, so I stole that.” Yesterday, I was pissing around with an EBow,” Josh says. “Ultimately, it’s about finding things that make us feel something. We didn’t sit there and cherry-pick singles like you can now” Shortly before our conversation, Tom and Josh tinker with the instruments, occasionally smiling at each other when a synth patch or melody sounds particularly groovy. Along the side of the live room is a valley of synthesizers: a Moog One, Minimoog, Mellotron, Sequential Prophet-10, and a Roland Juno-60, among plenty of other musical icons, all hooked up to the gargantuan Neve console. We’re sat in one of the rooms at Paul Epworth’s Church Studios, where Josh and Tom crafted parts of Loving In Stereo. take us back to the basics.” Image: Fiona Garden for MusicTech “We’d be in a bedroom with our stuff, surrounded by our gear. Such spaces remind Jungle of the setups in their childhood homes in Shepherd’s Bush.

These “playgrounds” are simply rooms where Jungle can be surrounded by gear, all plugged in and ready to record when creativity strikes. Much like with the creation of their previous albums, 2018’s For Ever and 2013’s Jungle, the two Londoners preferred working in what they call “playground studios”. Their third album, 2021’s Loving In Stereo, began in their home studios and was developed at professional spaces in LA and London.

“When we’re making stuff, whether it’s me or Tom, we just need a laptop, a great mic and a guitar,” Josh tells MusicTech.

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They are, at heart, just a pair of kids who love listening to music and making beats in their bedrooms. And yet, despite their eminence, the British duo, comprising Tom McFarland and Josh Lloyd-Watson, are dazzlingly down to earth. Billboards, TV commercials, podcasts, playlists, Apple Events, the London Underground – you name it.

Jungle’s Loving In Stereo is everywhere right now.

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