Self-professed “high priestess of underground disco-pop” Vanity Fairy has dropped her latest single, ‘Jungle Jim’. For this one, the disco-forward sound is ditched in favour of an ice-cool samba that allows her distinctive high voice to wander through a tranquil array of textures and melodies. The end result is psychedelic and alluring, complemented by an equally dreamy video. The track “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.” Keep an eye out for more exciting music from Vanity Fairy over the course of 2024. -Dan Peeke