![]() and was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. ![]() After signing with XL Recordings later that year, Jungle released their 2014 self-titled debut album, which went gold in the U.K. Scarred by the experience but determined to make a fresh start, they released early Jungle singles “ Platoon ” and “ The Heat ,” hooking audiences on their quirky, dance-focused, Adidas-obsessed music videos. Friends since their school days, they had previously joined a band called Born Blonde, which was signed to (and then dropped by) a major label before their first release. When Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland started Jungle in 2013, they still felt that they had something to prove. “Tolle says how we subscribe to our own thoughts and that’s what creates our egos: what we tell ourselves about our stories and who we are,” he explains, “that they don’t really mean much, so we can let go of them and be essentially free from these stories of what we tell ourselves and what we’re capable of.” ![]() ![]() During this time, he says, he has achieved a personal awakening, thanks in part to reading spiritual author Eckhart Tolle. “Freedom,” Josh Lloyd-Watson muses, “is in the mind.” Over Zoom, the British producer, multi-instrumentalist and one-half of the modern soul duo Jungle is imparting the spiritual lessons he has absorbed over the past year-and-a-half. ![]()
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