2011. BEST FOR GUESTS. 15 little jungles

Little Jungles is a one man project from Canada and in 2011 released Wuts Goin Thru Yer Head. As I mentioned earlier this year, the music is lyrically disarming, filled with electronics, distortions and shoegaze. With a very witty -and upbeat - point of view on love, agony and youth yearnings.
A new single will be released in January, 1st and later in 2012 a new album will be out.
You can get the album on bandcamp.
Listen to 'Drive Yerself Crazy', one of the greatest songs released this year.

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SONGS

JOHN MAUS BELIEVER
Awesome song. You gotta listen to the version in the video though.  Its slightly sped up.  Makes it sound even more triumphant.  Wonder why they sped it up  just for the video.

CHAD VAN GAALEN REPLACE ME
Love the guitar in this one.  Whole albums great.

J MASCIS NOT ENOUGH
Check out the video for this one too, animated by Chad Van Gaalen

EMA MARKED
Most emotionally affecting song I've heard all year.

KURT VILE GHOST TOWN
His lyrics seem so off the cuff.  "Christ was born I was there, you know me,  I'm around".   My favourite album this year.

NICKI MINAJ DID IT ON 'EM
The dirtiest sounding song I've ever heard.   I don't even know why I like it.  

BRAZILIAN MONEY PARTY TIL I'M DEAD 
Wish it was as long as sister ray.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA HOW CAN YOU LUV ME
So groovy.

Can I share a song with you not from 2011?

Hands down the most amazing thing I heard this year was "The Garden" by Cut Chemist.  It rocked my world, sent me on an instrumental hip hop downloading rampage and got me thinking a lot about production.  To me, it simply sounds perfect.  

wuts going thru yer head

LITTLE JUNGLES. WUTS GOING THRU YER HEAD (independent, 2011)

"You're always telling me all the negative things that I know I could change but it takes a long time to change". When you get a line like that on the opening track of an album from an artist that you've never heard before you simply know you're listening to something -at least - promising.
Little Jungles is lyrically disarming and filled with an honest take on modern angst and agony.
An upbeat mix of shoegaze, reverbs, distortions and electronics only makes the package more shiny and dreamy and sugary and bubbly.
 Ok, the 9-track release has its down moments (why's  Please Put the Knife Away among such a strong collection of songs?) but the overall feeling is just so involving and addictive...
Alongside the sensational opening track Drive Yerself Crazy - did I hear someone say 'song of the first half of 2011'? - the last 4 tracks create a strong tour de force on noise, psychedelia and richness of sound. Old Love Fading is the most accessible with its pop catchiness squirting from the distorted guitars. Blue Heron goes deeper into reverberations and noisepop, delivering a complex construction of sounds, strong bass drums and echoey vocals. New Girl is a beautiful "acoustic" song formed by claps, strummed guitars and Matthew Niemann's voice echoing praising his new girl.

Drilling, affecting and addictive. Matthew, I want more.


(Little Jungles' new album will be called I Would Kill for Some Sunlight and it'll be released on January 1, 2012.)

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