Found In The Wild

London duo Eli & Fur have spent the best part of half a decade establishing themselves as one of Anjunadeep’s most dependable acts, and Found In The Wild is the record that makes it official. Out on the label on 25 June, the twelve-track album is the pair’s debut long-player: a vocal-led, club-primed collection of deep and melodic house that gathers up the promise of their earlier singles and EPs and stretches it into something considerably grander.

Everything about the record speaks to its place in the Anjunadeep lineage. The duo have been mainstays of the roster for years, and Found In The Wild feels like the moment they step from trusted contributors to full-blown flagship status—Wild Skies, already a genuine label anthem by the time the album arrives, finally gets the home it deserves, wrapped in the rolling basslines and hazy pads that have become the pair’s signature.

At its core, this is a record built around the voice. The duo’s vocals are front and centre throughout, stacked into soft-focus harmonies, drenched in reverb and set against four-to-the-floor foundations that ensure the dreamier moments never drift too far from the dancefloor. Opener Fire To Fire sets the template in its three and a half minutes—breathy toplines floating over a chunky groove—whilst Am I Even Human? strips the formula right back, letting sparse, sub-heavy production give those harmonies room to breathe.

Highlights arrive thick and fast. In Too Deep rides a chugging, heads-down groove and lands a chorus with genuine weight, while Carbon leans into the darker corners of the duo’s sound, its tension easing into a breakdown that could hold a headline set together. Waiting (Eli & Fur’s Found Version) revisits their own back catalogue with added muscle, and Come Back Around and Big Tiger keep the energy buoyant with slick percussion and springy basslines. Closer I Can’t Move stretches out over five minutes, its locked groove and sighing pads drawing the album to a satisfied close.

Found In The Wild is not a record that reinvents the wheel, and it doesn’t need to. What it does—consistently across its twelve tracks—is deliver a confident, beautifully produced debut that knows exactly what its creators do well. For a duo who have spent years building towards this moment, it’s a statement of arrival; for the rest of us, it’s a summer’s worth of sun-drenched, club-primed house.