Clare Maguire releases new demos including bewitching Paris is Burning-inspired "Jungle Gardenia"

Last month, after explaining that she was no longer pursuing music as a fulltime career, Maguire announced her intentions to release a handful of demos into the world. "It’s frustrating that so much music wasn’t released because ‘nobody cares’. I don’t think it really matters," she told fans via Twitter.

Since her statement, Maguire has released three previously unheard demos: the bluesy bedroom-rock of "Bring Me Flowers When I'm Alive Not When I'm Dead", the classic piano-led balladry of "Heavenly Disaster", and most recently the chilled electro of "Jungle Gardenia". Whilst "Heavenly Disaster" stays truest to Maguire's most recent record, the three new singles showcase her incredible versatility as an artist through their starkly contrasting sounds.

"Jungle Gardenia" is a lowkey, modern pop track laden with squelching synths and the itch of an electronic snare. Maguire's vocal is no longer the androgynous bellow of Light After Dark, though ironically it now casts much more brightness and shade into her music. As a result, "Jungle Gardenia" may not embody the self-aggrandising, triumphant return many artists would aim for in Maguire's position, but it's undeniably all the better for it.

"I wrote 'Jungle Gardenia' with an amazing producer, Phairo," Maguire explains of the song. "I'd watched one of my favourite films Paris Is Burning the night before. I wanted to write a song inspired by the strength and iconic attitude displayed by the inspirational characters in the film; to write about the idea of a place that allows people to feel free and live out their dreams."