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Jungle Jim

by Vanity Fairy

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Side stepping the kitsch-disco hedonism of her recent output (and of November release ‘Love of My Life’), ‘Jungle Jim’ takes a sensuous dip into soupy, psychedelic waters. With fractured, oblique lyricism (‘You're the man / father within me, chosen / heaven could love me / I don’t want her shoals of god inside’”) lilting above a seductive, ice-cool samba, Vanity Fairy’s distinctive Bee-Gees-like vocals snake through more mysterious terrain than ever before, where tranquility and unease are never too far away. as she herself explains:

"Jungle Jim was one of those songs that just came out more or less in one whole piece, or at least the vocal did. And I like that it happened that way because the instrumental, (most of which my brother and co-writer/ producer Sam E. Yamaha came to me with) feels very instinctual to me - very dream-like and languorous… and also very jungle-y, at least to my ears; It sounds so calm and dreamy but there’s something really uneasy and unsettling happening in the music underneath everything. Not that the song’s about that, it’s just really the mood of the song to me..
The noises and few fragments of intelligible words I sang in the first take I wanted to keep, so my brother and I set about trying to remain as faithful as possible to those original sounds with the words we used. So the lyrics have an unconscious quality, and a kind of retroactively imposed automatism - if that’s not a contradiction (which I think it is). I like how fractured and fragile the language ends up being. And I like how un-authored it feels. Like I went into the song and disappeared.”

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released January 15, 2024

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Vanity Fairy London, UK

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May 4

Shake The High Road

Leytonstone, UK
May 4

Leytonstone Social Club

London, UK
May 9

Various Venues

Wrexham, UK
May 11

Coal Drops Yard

London, UK
May 19

The Windmill, Brixton

Brixton, UK
Jul 6

The Green Door Store

Brighton, UK
Jul 6

The Green Door Store

Brighton, UK
Oct 17

Eventim Apollo

London, UK

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