YVES JARVIS NEW ALBUM, ALL CYLINDERS, OUT FEBRUARY 28, 2025 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS
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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”
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Yves Jarvis — the moniker of Canadian musician Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet — announces his new album, All Cylinders, out February 28 via Next Door Records, and shares a video for its title track, “All Cylinders.” Make ready and say “ah” to All Cylinders—the golden, textured new album by one of Montreal’s most original musicians. Yves Jarvis, returns with an expression of brazen songcraft and pure musicianship: 11 tracks he played himself, without a single additional contributor, transforming his acclaimed, three time Polaris Music Prize longlisted vision into the stuff of verses and choruses, hooks and hits, which vibrates like a cosmic anthropology.
The way “All Cylinders” eases-in is like the ideal beginning or ending for a day. A cymbal hit; an enveloping folk-chorale; then the title track’s easy-going shuffle, a driving-song by way of Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach. ‘10 and 2 down Highway 3 / I’m headed home / I’m headed east,’ Jarvis coos. "An expression of faith as I barrel towards fate. RIYL: Speeding through a rainstorm without windshield wipers, Dionne Warwick, Judee Sill, Norah Jones, Marvin Gaye," explains Yves, of the title track.
As always, Yves Jarvis is distinguished by his sound—a warm, vivid thing that feels at once like a handknit piece of fabric and a sheet of precious metal. He is dedicated to music that condenses folk, R&B, country, blues, Americana—with a touch that’s contemporary, even futuristic. “It’s all the same sh*t,” he says. “They all stem from core things.” 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, and Panic at the Disco. Jarvis distills these influences 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.
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On the genesis of the album Jarvis explains: “I basically only listened to Frank Sinatra for a year. I wanted Sinatra’s clarity—the way the songs exist without him, as real things. And he’s the interpreter.” Whereas Jarvis had previously approached music as something sculptural—as compositions that emerge spontaneously from raw sonic material—"this time I just made a ton of songs,” he says: “I had tunes stuck in my head. I had choruses. I had actual parts. Instead of making a world, I thought: ‘I’m a band. The drums are there to keep the beat.’
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The goal became to articulate these songs as purely and as simply as possible. 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, the idea of “using magnetic dust as a medium,” now Jarvis appreciates the value of working without any such preciousness: much of All Cylinders was recorded on bare-bones Audacity, sans plugins, “no pretense, no self-indulgence, music for the sake of music,” channelling the spirit of Paul McCartney’s II. “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.”
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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
