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Sep 13, 2018For Ever's complex blend of bare emotions and gorgeous production makes it a huge step forward for Jungle. A band this successful could have left their private lives uninvestigated and turned in something more guarded and rote, but the palpable honesty of these songs is what makes them soar.
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Sep 12, 2018While their debut album favoured a shadowy and mystical aesthetic, For Ever makes for a far more personal affair.
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Sep 12, 2018For Ever is Jungle's Hollywood album, both in scope and substance. With it, the group affirm their place among the indie auteurs of the zeitgeist, and--perhaps more importantly--skilfully avoid the sophomore slump.
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Sep 13, 2018In For Ever, J and T have taken their ability of animating moments in life, and have looked inward, applying it to their fresh heartbreak. Littered all round there’s signs and sounds of love’s wreckage.
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UncutSep 20, 2018A follow-up that is more knowing and nuanced, although the expansive dance grooves remain uninhibited. [Nov 2018, p.32]
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Sep 12, 2018Jungle remain impossibly slick on For Ever, which creates an enjoyable listen, but a little bit more soul would be welcome. [Aug - Oct 2018, p.78]
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MojoOct 3, 2018While there's a sense that Jungle lack the invention of Young Fathers, whose vocals they echo, or Thundercat, whose disaffection they share, For Ever's Sunset Strip soap opera is always compelling. [Nov 2018, p.91]
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Sep 14, 2018It’s an album which is not sure whether it wants to be happy or sad; to accept the inevitable nothingness of existence or keep searching for answers.
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Sep 13, 2018Despite a four-year wait, the songs on their second album, For Ever, still sound like understudies for Mark Ronson mega-hits.
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Sep 13, 2018Album stand-outs ‘Heavy, California’ and ‘Happy Man’ would have slotted into the last LP seamlessly and, considered as a whole, For Ever feels like an opportunity missed.
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Sep 13, 2018Jungle have largely played it safe here; the feelgood alt-funk of ‘Heavy, California’ could sit seamlessly alongside anything from their debut, while the ominous nocturnal strut of single ‘Happy Man’ is just ‘Busy Earnin” Mk II.
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Q MagazineSep 12, 2018Somewhat muted follow-up. [Oct 2018, p.111]
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Sep 20, 2018Their reedy, one-note falsettos barely have the range for dance tracks that ask almost nothing of them, and For Ever’s mopier material is at odds with the very specific, frivolous itch that listeners come to this band to scratch. Jungle fare best when they stick to the grooves.
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Sep 17, 2018This music still tends to slip into the background, affable but never striking.
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