WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE – STRAIGHT OUTA DERBY!
Four weeks since the release of Jungle, were do the days go? In that timespan Marseille have been on a tear through the indie scene, as everyone seems to have found their feet moovin’ to this nine minute tripped out grooveathon!
Considering that Jungle was listed as track no. 1 on Duggystone Radio’s Spotify playlist Duggy’s Atomic Dustbin #21 this week, and tweeted by Janice Newton as track of the month, the momentum building behind Jungle is real
Signed to ADR Records, the third single from Marseille feels like a maturing departure from their prior rhythm guitar laced formula. With a bassline on the track that Marseille guitarist Joe Labram had in the can for four years before revealing, Jungle pays a neo-psychedelic laden homage to their Madchester influences.
Jungle unleashes the congas right off, and lays down the beat intertwined with that funky bassline. Parsed over with groovy riffs and their instantly recognizable vocal style; with lyrics like “My sisters up to mischief she’s been caught smokin hash, she’s lost inside the jungle never find her way back” it sure seems like Marseille are out there on a groovy tip!
The B side – if you dare call it that – to the single, The Universe is Yours sees the band return to their now signature driving rhythm riffs, backed by high end percussion, and a hard bass drum on the beat! The track opens though with an entrancing backward cymbal and bass line solo, and harkens back to some of the other dreamy Madchester openers we all know so well!
Jungle is if anything an arrival track, with a great sense of fluidity and elements of experimentation through out. The jungle Marseille find themselves in is an endless overlay of loops, beats and percussion. You can dissect it six ways from Sunday, but in the end it’s an infectious beat and a killer groove, so lace up and get on up!
MARSEILLE – ALL KILLER NO FILLER!
