YVES JARVIS SHARES NEW SINGLE / VIDEO, “THE KNIFE IN ME”

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“[Yves] may be the archetypal home-recording hermit operating in splendid isolation, but his music is ultimately a vehicle for connection, inviting you to savor the people and places that keep you sane.” — Pitchfork

“a lightness of touch and liquid grace” — The Line of Best Fit

“audacious and expressive.” — Exclaim!

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Today, Yves Jarvis — the moniker of Jean-Sébastien Yves Jarvis — releases the new single and video for “The Knife In Me” via Next Door Records. It’s the first new single from a forthcoming release out in early 2025 and follows the “wide-eyed optimism and withering wit” (Pitchfork) of 2022 album The Zug. “The Knife In Me” is a golden and textured track that feels at once like a handknit piece of fabric and a sheet of precious metal. On the track, Yves says, “The sardonic masochist confronts the trauma of betrayal. RIYL: Claymation sequence of walking on the entire earth, Apollo 13 mission, staring out the window wistfully. Anderson .Paak, Stevie Wonder, Electric Light Orchestra.”

The video for “The Knife In Me,” directed by Derek Branscombe, depicts Yves in the kitchen of a Sushi restaurant, preparing dishes until he is stabbed by a fellow chef. From here, the kitchen catches fire, and Jarvis is ultimately shown slipping in and out of reality, creating a part-real, part-celestial scene. 

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Unlike his previous analog tape-heavy recordings, “The Knife In Me” was recorded by plugging gear into a half-broken laptop. Whereas once Yves had favored the idea of “using magnetic dust as a medium,” now, he appreciates the value of working without any such preciousness. 

Recorded on bare-bones Audacity, sans plugins, Yves says “The Knife In Me” has “no pretense, no self-indulgence, [it is] music for the sake of music,” channeling the spirit of Paul McCartney’s II. “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.”

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YVES JARVIS RELEASES 4TH STUDIO ALBUM THE ZUG TODAY, SHARES NEW VIDEO

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THE ZUG OUT TODAY VIA FLEMISH EYE (CANADA) + ANTI- (EVERYWHERE ELSE)

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 Many-sided artist Yves Jarvis is releasing The Zug today, his latest release via ANTI- / Flemish Eye Records. To celebrate the album’s release he has also shared a high-spirited new video for the album track ”On The Line”.

“On The Line” overflows with galloping drum fills and foaming guitars, addressing the fear-mongers with plainly tongue-in-cheek descriptions of freedom (“Fear today! I’m alive and free to hate!”.) Verse 2 proclaims with clear-eyed earnestness (“Let freedom reign!”) before relinquishing control and breaking free of our own trappings by acknowledging the choice therein (“Free to oscillate between the poles of my own cage!…”.) recalling Kevin Ayers’ or Faust’s freewheeling and cartoonish experimental rock. 

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 Called a ”magical mood conductor” by The Fader, Jarvis’s music is critically acclaimed, with Under The Radar saying that he is ”an enthralling and surprising listen ... coming from the same Afro-futuristic camp as Thundercat and Kendrick Lamar” while Pitchfork added that he creates ”fluid, soul-inflected folk—like if Toro y Moi produced early Iron and Wine.” 

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Like the many works under Jarvis’ belt, The Zug is an entirely self-produced venture. From instrumentation to engineering to artwork, the autodidact has forged a bastion for vanguard exploration within which no holds are barred. With his youthful exuberance and swagger, the 25-year-old Jarvis evokes a mid-1970s Bowie as he bellows operatically with palpable conviction and purpose.  

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 The Zug is at times a stadium spectacle, sometimes a whisper. From Birth to Death we celebrate and mourn, here this gamut of Feeling is condensed into a single motif. The strata of Being are straddled to highlight the relational networks in which we find ourselves. Jarvis expertly appeals to our senses without patronizing us.   

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TOUR DATES 
5/28 - Calgary, AB – East Town Get Down Festival 

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THE ZUG TRACKLIST
1. At The Whims
2. You Offer a Mile
3. Prism Through Which I Perceive
4. Bootstrap Jubilee
5. Enemy
6. Gestalt
7. Thrust
8. What
9. Stitchwork
10. Endless Tube
11. Why
12. On the Line
13. Projection
14. To That End

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YVES JARVIS SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK “AT THE WHIMS”

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THE ZUG OUT MAY 13 VIA FLEMISH EYE (CANADA) + ANTI- (EVERYWHERE ELSE)

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With influences ranging from David Bowie, Yes and Captain Beefheart to CSNY, Fleetwood Mac and Harry Nilsson, Yves Jarvis continues to expand his sound on ‘The Zug’, his fourth studio album, coming out May 13. 

Today he has shared the track “At The Whims” alongside a new video for the song that features Jarvis exuberantly dancing and singing to the track in the high desert.

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“At The Whims” depicts “the arc of civilization,” Jarvis explains. “From our genesis to our self-realization (‘..We’re not at the whims! We’re out on the fringe!’), humanity’s insatiable conquest (‘Unprecedented unfolding, out from their holdings and into the fray’) resulting in our ‘rise’ the fervid leap from 0 to 1 that sets society’s wheels into motion and ‘the fall of an empire’ that looms across all epochs.”

“Punctuated by the contemporary individualist, nihilist narrator, (‘Prospect in front of me is void and empty’) only to be usurped and outnumbered by the enlightened and life affirming post-chorus of ecstatic ‘YEAHs’,” he continued. “A bullish acoustic strum anchors us to the earth while harmonics wail mightily from above, evoking a desert sandstorm, while the lyrics are inspired by the poetic depth of Bob Dylan.”

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The Zug, shorthand for Zugzwang, is a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage. Zug is also a town in Switzerland. The Zug is an entirely self-produced venture, as from instrumentation to engineering to artwork, Jarvis the autodidact has forged a bastion for vanguard exploration within which no holds are barred. These creative mediums coalesce into a higher order of consciousness, depicting the cosmic dance we both represent inwardly and engage with outwardly.

The spirit of Endeavor permeates every aspect of The Zug. Through soaring heights and searing heat, Jarvis shepherds us through the Narrows and into the Open to bewildering effect. Structural convention is subverted but not disregarded. Emphatically wedged into the Canon by employing a traditional rock instrumentation, these familiar tools glitter afresh with new insights to behold.

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Ever changing, The Zug is iridescent, refracting a spectrum of color from a single source. Our perspective will define its characteristics, only to dissolve altogether at the nod of our heads. It is Grounded, though. Built on the well-worn foundations of symbolic story, Jarvis is myth-making for a new generation. We are being invited to scale ourselves up to witness the colossal interplays of the Heavens, and down into the bacteria from whence we came.

Said Pitchfork in an encapsulation of Jarvis’s music: “Plenty of albums are described as dreamy for the way they drape otherwise conventional songs in pillowy textures and arrangements; Jarvis is the rare songwriter who also follows the logic of dreams within the structures of his compositions.”

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THE ZUG TRACKLIST
1. At The Whims
2. You Offer a Mile
3. Prism Through Which I Perceive
4. Bootstrap Jubilee
5. Enemy
6. Gestalt
7. Thrust
8. What
9. Stitchwork
10. Endless Tube
11. Why
12. On the Line
13. Projection
14. To That End

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