Back On 74

Album: Volcano (2023)
Charted: 19
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Songfacts®:

  • "Back On 74" is a warm summer afternoon of a song about nostalgia. Jungle reflect on their younger days and wish they could go back to a time when life was easier

    "It's that feeling of having this place of your life where you grew up, where you had these really fond memories," Jungle's Josh Lloyd told Apple Music. "74 is a fictitious thing, but for us it's like 74th Avenue or 74th Street or something, where, in your imagination or as a kid, you were playing out on the street. You've gone back to this place and it's giving you this really nostalgic feeling but everything's not quite the same."
  • Lydia Kitto, the touring vocalist for Jungle, takes the lead in singing the two verses while the band's Thomas McFarland and Josh Lloyd deliver the remainder of the song. These three artists also joined forces to compose the track, with Lloyd crafting the tight, airy, throwback production that has become Jungle's signature.
  • The music video for "Back On 74," directed by Josh Lloyd and Charlie Di Placido of Contentus Maximus, is an innovative interactive visual that uses WeTransfer, a file-sharing platform. The clip acts like a one-of-a-kind virtual art gallery where viewers can download artworks while they watch. When a viewer selects a piece they fancy, it instantly disappears from the video, leaving a blank canvas in its wake. Each viewing of the video showcases six distinct artworks chosen from a vast collection of 10,000 unique pieces crafted by Josh Lloyd.
  • Jungle released "Back on 74" as a single from their fourth album, Volcano, on July 28, 2023. It entered the UK chart at #73, becoming the duo's first UK Top 75 single.
  • A substantial portion of Volcano was written on tour before Lloyd and McFarland got together to start recording in LA. The finishing touches were added a bit later in London at their favorite location, Studio B at Metropolis Studios.
  • Lloyd came up with the album name after he watched a documentary. "I was in bed watching something on Netflix about a volcano - that was it," he smiled to The Sun.
  • The song shows up in Netflix' 2024 movie Lonely Planet.

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