“Heavy Hearted” by The Jungle Giants

The Jungle Giants put out "Heavy Hearted" in July 2019 as the first taste of their fourth album, Love Signs, which wouldn't arrive until 2021. It's close to a solo job for frontman Sam Hales: he wrote it, produced it, recorded and engineered it, and played almost everything on it, and he said he'd never gone that deep into the studio side of things before. The tune had been kicking around as an instrumental for so long that he kept forgetting what it was called and nearly lost it altogether, but the bass line and the beat kept sneaking back into his head.

Good thing they did. The single went gold in Australia, took Song of the Year and Pop Song of the Year at the 2020 Queensland Music Awards, and the remix EP that followed that October won an AIR Award in the dance and electronica category.

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