New Single Release: Vanity Fairy “Jungle Jim”
15 January 2024
Each song is about the residents of her fictional town West Feldwood so if you feel like some detective work you can probably start putting some pieces together with the ones released so far.
There’s something of Fionna Apple or Tori Amos here but Ellie Bleach is undeniably most of all a cabaret singer. Her voice is deep and sultry, her lyrics are witty and somewhat dismal. It’s less Lana Del Rey than the previous single ‘Whole Lotta Nothing’ but equally as charming. It half seems like a piece of musical theatre as she tells the story of a man sitting across the bar who dreams of fame but overall the song is about imagining how it would feel to get revenge on the people you feel have looked down on you by becoming a star.
To Dazed she said: “This is the most theatrical of all my releases thus far. Vaudeville arrangements including sax and clarinet help set the scene of a seedy jazz bar, then descending into total cacophony by the end. That’ll show em is the emotional crescendo of the entire EP, ending on a note of total desperation.”
Her upcoming tour shares the name of this track and kicks off at the end of March. While speaking to The Rodeo she noted that this track “is arranged live to end in cacophony and transition into a different song, so it’s super fun to end the song live with chaotic improvisation” so make sure you catch it live to experience it firsthand.