YVES JARVIS NEW ALBUM, ALL CYLINDERS, OUT TODAY VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS
WATCH / SHARE “ONE GRIPE” HERE
BUY / STREAM ALL CYLINDERS HERE
TOUR DATES BEGIN THIS APRIL
Jarvis takes his time with "Gold Filigree," plucking the bass as keys fall like raindrops, leaving plenty of space for his lyrics to land on your heart. Jarvis recommends this song for people who like "fornication, love-making, procreation, steak frites, Prince, Al Green, and Charlotte Day Wilson" — and he's not wrong.” CBC Music on Gold Filigree
“With the ramshackle majesty of a Prince demo, ‘Gold Filigree’ still feels as polished as the titular jewelry, and twinkles with admiration for a lover who’s so well put together, it could only be divine symmetry.” —The FADER, “Songs You Need In Your Life”
"Angelic folk led by an acoustic guitar strum and harmonies that would make Crosby, Stills and Nash want to join in." — Billboard Canada on “The Knife in Me”
READ YVES JARVIS’ INTERVIEW WITH RANGE MAGAZINE HERE
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Today, Yves Jarvis — the moniker of Canadian musician Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet — releases his new album, All Cylinders via Next Door Records, unveils the video for “One Gripe”, and announces North American tour dates starting this April through June. Warm and vivid, “One Gripe” is about airing one’s grievances. Of the track, Jarvis says: "Though it does not go unappreciated, loved ones dish out hard truths when I just want to hear myself talk.” He sings: ‘Talked all night / I needed your advice / One gripe / You don’t tell me what I want to hear / You keep it real.’ Jarvis recommends the track for fans of roller rinks, John Mayer, The Doobie Brothers, and Daft Punk.
WATCH / SHARE “ONE GRIPE” HERE
On All Cylinders, Yves Jarvis expresses a brazen songcraft and pure musicianship: 11 tracks he played himself, without a single additional contributor, transforming his three-time Polaris Music Prize-longlisted vision into the stuff of verses and choruses, hooks and hits, which vibrates like a cosmic anthropology. At home, in the studio, at subletted apartments in Montreal and L.A.—he’d roll out of bed and get straight to work, plugging his gear into a half-broken laptop. Whereas once he had fetishized analog tape, now Jarvis appreciated the value of working without any such preciousness: much of All Cylinders was recorded on bare-bones Audacity, sans plugins, channeling the spirit of Paul McCartney’s II.
WATCH / SHARE “ALL CYLINDERS” HERE
Jarvis is an omnivore, and All Cylinders smashes together a stunning array of influences: Serge Gainsbourg, Judee Sill, Sheryl Crow, Captain Beefheart, Jackson Browne, Throbbing Gristle, Ray Charles, Brian Eno, Fleetwood Mac, Panic at the Disco… All this is distilled into tunes that feel like taking sips from a cup, or drags from a cigarette—vivid and self-contained tunes that are just two or three minutes long. “I feel like this is the least contrived thing I’ve ever done,” Jarvis declares. Lyrics that matter. Vocals up front, where people will actually hear them. “If something’s true to you,” he explains, “it’s probably true to a million other people.”
WATCH / SHARE “GOLD FILIGREE” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “THE KNIFE IN ME”
TOUR DATES
Apr 24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
Apr 25 - Washington, DC @ Pearl Street Warehouse *
Apr 26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's *
Apr 29 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB*
Apr 30 - Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall *
May 02 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village *
May 03 - Minneapolis, MN @ Icehouse *
Jun 03 - Los Angeles, CA @ Healing Force of the Universe
Jun 10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Healing Force of the Universe
Jun 17 - Los Angeles, CA @ Healing Force of the Universe
Jun 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Healing Force of the Universe
Jun 30 - Los Angeles, CA @ Healing Force of the Universe
* = supporting Fabiana Palladino
MORE PRAISE FOR YVES JARVIS
“When you first tune in, you’ll find a funk-bop that’ll perk the ear of even the most casual Thundercat fan… then it gives way to a folk troubadour moment that’ll have you reaching for your acoustic guitar and hiking boots.” — KCRW, on “The Knife in Me”
“[All Cylinders] is a multi-genre odyssey… Chasing the tail of Gainsbourg or Bacharach, Jarvis cannot avoid being a bit more erotic and ornate than them, with hints at the portable blues and post-D’Angelo R&B of L’Rain and Nick Hakim… now there is a conscious, sincere engagement with the classics Jarvis clearly adores—Paul McCartney, Love, Stevie Wonder, and Prince.” — Aquarium Drunkard
"If there is one experimental record you listen to this year, it should be All Cylinders. From start to finish, it is mesmerizingly creative and full of charmingly catchy tunes." — Out Front Magazine
BUY / STREAM ALL CYLINDERS HERE
ALL CYLINDERS TRACKLIST
1. With A Grain
2. Gold Filigree
3. One Gripe
4. Decision Tree
5. I’ve Been Mean
6. I’m Your Boy
7. Warp And Woof
8. All Cylinders
9. The Knife In Me
10. Patina
11. Luck’s Last Luster