Apre have the video for brand new single ‘Your Heart’s Like A Jungle’, which is available now on Polydor Records. Following a series of acclaimed introductory EPs, the London-based band have cut their teeth touring with the likes of Sam Fender, Friendly Fires, Inhaler and Lany. ‘Your Heart’s Like A Jungle’ is, according to Apre, “about being lost in a relationship. It describes that frustrating feeling when you are trying your best to love someone, but you fail to understand their emotions and get lost in your feelings for them. It’s about the dead ends that mean you will struggle to get along, and the hardships when trusting the person you really love not to break your heart.”

Whether examining the strains on modern relationships or that broader, political sense of chaos, finding your way through ‘the jungle’ is fundamental to the ambitions of Apre.  Fronted by co-vocalists Charlie and Jules, the band are as inspired by the socially conscious, observational lyricism of Pet Shop Boys as the alternative indie of Foals - often masking intimate home-truths behind innately massive-sounding songs, such as ‘Your Heart’s Like A Jungle’. Still a group in relative infancy, they may have started life as an outlet for escapism – the boys did, after all, meet in a West London chess club – but across their eclectic, experimental and red-blooded EPs to date, Apre have also found their voice.

If the band increasingly seem to capture times of crisis (emotional, and generational), part of what makes Apre interesting is the way they engage with the madness. Mixing shrewd lyrical storytelling with occasionally surreal touches, the results are transformed into something universal, positive, and affirming.

Following the release of her debut LP last year, Margate-based artist & producer BABii has just announced a new EP iii, which is set for release March 27. The first single from the record ‘Beast’ is streaming online now.

Speaking about the new track, BABii said "‘Beast’ is about being far away in proximity from someone but still feeling emotionally close to them, and realising the opposite could be much worse, being in close proximity to someone but emotionally feeling distant from them."

BABii’s debut album HiiDE came out in July last year, but she has not stopped creating. In September she released XYZ, a collaborative album with fellow GLOO members Iglooghost and Kai Whiston; a glitchy electronic work described as “the year’s most brilliantly alienating album” by Loud & Quiet. Following UK/EU tours with Chk Chk Chk and WHY? she joined up with GLOO again for a sold out London edition of their interactive clubnight Grid. BABii built the machines in which attendees inserted tokens that had been hidden around the club to change the music and visuals onstage.

Speaking about the new EP, BABii said "iii is three songs about the proximity of three different people in my life. One who I don’t want in my proximity, another who wants me out of theirs and one who I want in mine."

See BABii live:

4th March - London, Lafayette supporting Grouplove

5th March - Newcastle, Cobalt

26th-27th March - Lisbon, MIL Festival

9th May - The Great Eastern Festival, Edinburgh

20th June - Near Future Festival, Liverpool