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Introducing the four girls warming up the pop-rave airwaves this summer: Neon Jungle<\/p>\n

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Bouncy, RCA-signed girl band Neon Jungle recently went on\u00a0a group bonding exercise to see Beyonc\u00e9 at the O2. They came out screaming, (they claim) stronger, and inspired by\u00a0her ability to enthral a room of 18,000. \u201cShe\u2019s still growing\u00a0and every time I see her she gets better and better,\u201d gushes Amira McCartny, one fourth of the group. \u201cEveryone was happy. Everyone had a smile on their face. Some people were crying – but happy-tears. She gives you conviction. She\u2019s so, so relatable, and I really hope that we can connect to people just the way she does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neon Jungle – a self-confessed manufactured girl group, whose members hail from across the UK – are the first to admit they\u2019re an unlikely match. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t be generically place together,\u201d explains a blonde afro-d Jess Plummer.\u00a0\u201cIf we were on the X Factor, they wouldn\u2019t think to put us together.\u201d<\/p>\n

If debut single \u201cTrouble\u201d, penned by serial hitsmith\u00a0CocknBullKid, was the riotous girls-next-door banger aimed at a prime time Radio 1 pop crowd, their follow-up, the January- released \u201cBraveheart\u201d, raised the bar that bit further, meshing gutteral low end bass throbs with arching falsettos. \u201cWe want to show people our diversity – what we\u2019re all into,\u201d Plummer says. \u201c… and that we\u2019re not just about headache-y, high-energy dance music\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSince \u2018Braveheart\u2019, a lot has happened, and I feel like we\u2019ve learned a lot about who we are,\u201d Neon\u2019s Mira Mcarthey adds, going on to hint at the variety of genres tapped into on their forthcoming debut album. \u201cWe\u2019re here to stay!\u201d, quips Shereen Cutkelvin – the group\u2019s soft-spoken, Motown-era Diana Ross (think: smoke \u2018n\u2019 whisky vocals and midnight soul searching..) \u201cWe\u2019re here with open arms, and we don\u2019t want to be those cool, ignorant kids at school. We ain\u2019t the cool kids… We\u2019re the dorks\u201d.<\/p>\n

Plummer, 21, was spotted while waiting for a bus with her\u00a0sister on Brick Lane. Apparently, she was told she had an \u201caura\u201d about her\u2014and that\u2019s believable. \u201cMusic is everything to me,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I never thought that I was good enough to make a career of it\u201d. Indeed, much like Sugababes MK1, a large part of Neon Jungle\u2019s appeal is the their fragile modesty. Her sullen mood is shaken off when 18-year-old, Ipswich-born Asami Zdrenka chips in about her taste in vocal style: \u201cI\u2019m<\/p>\n

into the raspiness of the male voice,\u201d she says of her love\u00a0of Foo Fighters and female vocalists like Alanis Morissette. (Though when her guard\u2019s down, Zdrenka let her crippling 1D infatuation slip…).\u00a0McCarthy, still only 17 like Cutkelvin (the pair bemoan to Wonderland that they still have to sign parental guidance forms before playing shows) was scouted by the label out in Westfield Shopping Centre in west London, and despite her age, she\u2019s probably the group\u2019s loudest and most confident troubadour. \u201cI\u2019m always that annoying kid on the stage\u201d, she\u00a0says, decalring her love for reggae and brash, dancehall hyoe girls.<\/p>\n

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The girls reportedly \u201cjust clicked\u201d when they were introduced back in February 2013 – and they now share a flat in London. \u201cWe missed out the \u2018just friends\u2019 stage and turned straight into a family,\u201d claims Asami. \u201cThe first time we met properly, we stayed at Jess\u2019 flat and went out for dinner – all just telling each other our deepest, darkest secrets.\u201d Mira adds. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those things where you kind of learn to love people that you\u2019re with all the time… We didn\u2019t have a choice. And we\u2019re stuck now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From top to bottom:<\/strong> Amira wears black and white mixed wool coat by MOSCHINO pre fall. Jess wears navy and black long cinch bandeau silk dress by CHRISTOPHER KANE pre fall, and black leather and shearling gloves by MARNI pre fall. Shereen wears pink and blue silk polka dot shirt and pink silk duchesse skirt both by GILES DEACON pre fall, and brown leather boots by MCQ pre fall. Asami wears white organza bolero and blue denim dress both by CHANEL.<\/p>\n

Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Huw Oliver<\/p>\n

Photographer:<\/strong> Alastair Strong<\/p>\n

Fashion Editor:<\/strong> Harry Lambert<\/p>\n

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