La Jungle - Ephemeral Feast (Double Black Vinyl)

Born in the heart of successive lockdowns, Ephemeral Feast is isolated from the band’s usual tours and parties and proves far-fetched from the promiscuity that the group usually likes to develop with its audience. Jim and Roxie composed it in the spring of 2020 at Rockerill in Charleroi (Belgium), their only base during the weeks and months of the pandemic. Ten new titles – proving colder and clearly less festive than their usual output – are bundled here to create an atmosphere that can only be described as far from pleasant. This time, La Jungle uses chilling sounds and leaves aside its dancing gimmicks to make space for the fears and anxieties transcending its existence.

Inhabited by a need to describe both our declining society and a world that looks more and more doomed, Jim and Roxie have given their new album a rather pessimistic and anxiety-inducing tone, which reflects a time when mankind looks bound to disappear. Ephemeral Feast paints the portrait of an outrageous banquet that is coming to an end. It evokes a feast during which humanity would have gone too far and shamelessly enjoyed the necessarily limited resources that its host Earth lavished on it. From now on, at the slightest shock, the statue of Mother Nature – as it appears on the album cover – could well collapse once and for all.