TroyBoi and Surinamese-Indian artist Shiwa release ‘Jungle’ via Ultra Records, a bass-driven crossover single rooted in tribal percussion and Caribbean influences
Some artists chase the next sound. Others, every so often, circle back to the one that made people pay attention in the first place. TroyBoi falls into the second camp with “Jungle,” a new single built with vocalist Shiwa that trades polish for pulse and trend for instinct. Released June 26 via Ultra Records, the track is the London producer’s fourth release of 2026 and his most direct statement yet about where his creative identity lives when no one is asking it to be anything else.
Anyone who has followed Troy Henry’s career knows the arc by now. A kid in a London kitchen apartment, armed with a laptop and a MIDI keyboard, turns out beats so singular that audiences start spelling his name out at shows. Over the years that sound has traveled into trap, into Latin music on his INFLUENDO EP, into rooms with Justin Bieber and Rihanna. “Jungle” doesn’t try to top any of that. It just goes back to where the foundation was laid: tribal percussion, low end you feel in your chest, and a vocal performance that does the heavy lifting.
That vocal belongs to Shiwa, and it’s the reason “Jungle” doesn’t feel like a retread. His voice draws from Surinamese-Indian heritage and Caribbean reggae and dancehall traditions, and there’s a rawness to his delivery that sits somewhere between performance and prayer. He’s not decorating TroyBoi’s production. He’s conversing with it. The two trade space back and forth across the track, never crowding each other, which is rarer than it should be in dance music right now.
What the Track Actually Does
What stands out most is the patience. TroyBoi has built a career on the unexpected, but here the surprise is restraint. The drums roll instead of rush. The low end sits instead of explodes. Nothing about “Jungle” feels like it’s reaching for a festival drop or a TikTok clip. It feels like a producer and a vocalist who trusted the song enough to let it breathe, and that confidence is what gives the record its staying power.
For an artist with TroyBoi’s track record, including a Billie Eilish remix that crossed 100 million Spotify streams and placements during Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty show, there’s no real need to prove anything anymore. Yet “Jungle” lands as one of his most assured releases precisely because it isn’t trying to. It’s a reminder, plain and simple, of the sound that started the chant in the first place. Ultra Records positioning it as a crossover global dance record is the right call: the track sits equally well in a late-night club mix and on a morning commute playlist, which is a rare quality and one that emerges from genuine production confidence rather than strategic calculation.
Shiwa and What He Brings to the Record
Shiwa, for his part, continues to make a strong case for himself as an artist carrying something deeper than a feature credit. Raised between cultures and rooted firmly in his heritage, his music operates on instinct and inheritance in equal measure. “Jungle” may be billed as a TroyBoi single, but Shiwa’s fingerprints are all over what makes it work.
The official music video accompanies the single’s release, and the visual direction extends the track’s immersive, percussion-forward world without overexplaining it. What “Jungle” demonstrates, across both its sonic and visual components, is what happens when two artists operating from genuinely distinct creative places find a shared frequency and commit to it fully. TroyBoi has always been at his best when the production serves something larger than itself. “Jungle” is the clearest recent evidence of that instinct at work.
