It's make-or-break time for Neon Jungle. Their new single 'Braveheart' is out next week and it's brilliant!

It's always been difficult for for new girlbands to break through. Time and again there's been one girlband casualty after another. Soundgirl, Parade, Girls Can't Catch, Mini Viva and plenty more, all tried and failed to make any kind of real dent on the UK music scene, despite making good pop music. Of course, that makes it all the more difficult, as a pop music fan, to properly invest in a new girl group. 

Neon Jungle

But at the end of last summer, only a matter of months after signing a deal with RCA, the 2 minutes and 33 seconds of ballsy, in-your-face pop was unleashed in the form of Neon Jungle's debut single 'Trouble'. Entering the charts at #12 and gaining support from Capital FM, as well as entering the Top 100 on the US iTunes chart. Not a bad start all things considered. 

A few months later and we find ourselves in 2014 with a brand new single from the girls, called 'Braveheart'. Second singles traditionally tend to be make-or-break time for most girlbands, so it'll be a tentative week seeing how the song does on the charts, after little radio support from the two biggest stations in the country. 

As for the song itself, well it pretty much takes off from where 'Trouble' started and doesn't look back. It's loud, it's brash and it doesn't pretend to be something it's not. The production resembles something that Example might come up with (though you shouldn't let that scare you off). Yes it is generic, but that isn't always a bad thing. 

The song does take a slight dip in the form of the slightly odd rap, which needn't really be there. But apart from that it's all go go go. It's got a bridge to die for, and when the 'BRAVEHEARTTTT' chorus comes in, followed by the 'show me what you got' hook, you'll soon find yourself singing along. The best moment of the song though comes in the form of Asami's counting in Japanese- 'ichi, ni, san, kaesu' before the beat drops. And it's one hell of a drop. 

This song is absolutely huge, and so will Neon Jungle be if they're just given a chance. 

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'Braveheart' will be released 19/01/14. Download here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/braveheart-single/id740624466

If you'd like to download their debut single 'Trouble' here's the link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/trouble-ep/id670016727