Yves Jarvis is continuing his rate of pandemic output with another new album due in 2022. He'll drop The Zug on May 13 via Flemish Eye/ANTI-, and today, he's offering a taste of what's to come.
After teasing the album with recent single "Prism Through Which I Perceive," which arrived alongside a Chad VanGaalen-animated music video last month, Jarvis is now previewing the album further with another clip (comprised of mainly childhood photos) for new single "Bootstrap Jubilee."
Here's what he had to say about the track, which is inspired by the films Paris, Texas and Boyhood, according to a release:
The first verse describes both evolutionary biology and psychology; "In the event that there's an opportunity / Coalesce into a higher form of being / Watch me bootstrap from the substrate underneath." "Bootstrap Jubilee" is the commemoration of my 25th year on earth, but all of humanity is being celebrated in verse 1 for the achievement of being. Verse 2 is a personal account of my childhood "Born in 1996 with an immediate reluctance to exist" and foray into the arts: "Busking on the street proved to be lucrative — made connections in the local radius" and "Rubbing elbows with the Artists we revered, climbing up the rungs of a music career."
The Zug finds Jarvis breaking his album-colour streak, following the green of 2020's Sundry Rock Song Stock and the blue of 2019's The Same But By Different Means, to name a few. His latest came in the form of a collaborative album, Banned, released with Tasseomancy's Romy Lightman under the name Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band.
Watch the video for "Bootstrap Jubilee" below, where you can also find the album's tracklisting.
The Zug:
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
Pre-order The Zug.
After teasing the album with recent single "Prism Through Which I Perceive," which arrived alongside a Chad VanGaalen-animated music video last month, Jarvis is now previewing the album further with another clip (comprised of mainly childhood photos) for new single "Bootstrap Jubilee."
Here's what he had to say about the track, which is inspired by the films Paris, Texas and Boyhood, according to a release:
The first verse describes both evolutionary biology and psychology; "In the event that there's an opportunity / Coalesce into a higher form of being / Watch me bootstrap from the substrate underneath." "Bootstrap Jubilee" is the commemoration of my 25th year on earth, but all of humanity is being celebrated in verse 1 for the achievement of being. Verse 2 is a personal account of my childhood "Born in 1996 with an immediate reluctance to exist" and foray into the arts: "Busking on the street proved to be lucrative — made connections in the local radius" and "Rubbing elbows with the Artists we revered, climbing up the rungs of a music career."
The Zug finds Jarvis breaking his album-colour streak, following the green of 2020's Sundry Rock Song Stock and the blue of 2019's The Same But By Different Means, to name a few. His latest came in the form of a collaborative album, Banned, released with Tasseomancy's Romy Lightman under the name Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band.
Watch the video for "Bootstrap Jubilee" below, where you can also find the album's tracklisting.
The Zug:
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
Pre-order The Zug.
