Joshua Lloyd-Watson, left, and Tom McFarland of Jungle | Credit: Lydia Kitto 

The journey to becoming Jungle — a hard-to-nail-into-a-genre band that is one of today’s most innovative artists in electronic music, known as much for their incredibly creative and free-spirited choreography as they are for their beats —began in cofounder Tom McFarland’s bedroom in London, where he and childhood friend and cofounder Joshua Lloyd-Watson began experimenting with music production at the ripe old age of 10. Their debut album was in 2014, and their first three records have since amassed more than a million equivalent album sales and a billion streams worldwide, leading to a select run of European dates last year supporting Billie Eilish on her Happier Than Ever tour.

Hot off the August 11 debut of their new album, Volcano, their fourth, Jungle stops by to headline at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Wednesday, September 6, as part of a worldwide tour that includes stops in Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan, Zurich, Brisbane, and Amsterdam, among others. 

McFarland took time out from rehearsals in London to answer a few of my questions.

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