Back in October, Yves Jarvis — the moniker of Montreal-by-way-of-Calgary musician Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet — made his debut release for Next Door Records with "The Knife in Me," a rollicking shapeshifter that found its way from funk to folk over the course of merely two minutes. Now, he's back with "Gold Filigree," which moves entirely differently yet with the same sense of cosmic wandering.
Yves Jarvis boldly follows a song wherever it leads him. Starting in the vein of the ultra-modern yet timeless soul of Dijon's seductive anthems like "The Dress" and getting into Mk.gee territory with willowy overdubs and a searing guitar solo, the peaks and valleys of "Gold Filigree" — which is at one point delightfully rhymed with "tomfoolery" — are woven into something as wiry and intricate as its namesake.
But it never feels complicated; it's just Jarvis finding his way to hone something cosmically predestined by his particular collision of influences in this particular moment. It's worth getting lost in.