un blonde / Yves Jarvis

new album 'good will come to you' is a special thing

21 sketches of warm vocal harmonies, field recordings, and the gentlest guitar

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2794647314_16.jpg

https://unblonde.bandcamp.com/album/good-will-come-to-you

arthur russell via d'angelo?

Listening to this now. Very cool.

gonna be a great summer album

This is very nice. I don't hear much Russell, maybe more like Weldon Irvine and Skip Spence?
have you seen him live Flopson? I see he's playing casa del popolo on Thursday

i've seen him play at random shows but it was very different from this, like faltering ramshackle post-punk. might not make it to the show on thursday as i'm moving this weekend... :-(

i hear russell in the phrasing and also the quavering quality of the vocals in some parts. don't recognize those other two names you mention though

oh he's opening for USAOUTOFVIETNAM, definitely not gonna go to that. i'll definitely catch him whenever he headlines a show for this stuff though

'I Felt The Evening Come Through The Window' sounds undeniably like Russel imo

yeah on second listen I can hear more of what you mean re Russell. It seemed like an odd reference to me cuz I was picking up on much more hippie influences, hence Spence and Irvine, to be kind of reductive (Spence is falling-down 60s folk/rock and Irvine is spacey 70s soul/jazz; could throw a bit of "If I Could Only Remember My Name" in too, though obv the vocals are quite different), which is more what I was hearing on the first go through. anyway, it's a great album and it's not like it sounds super retro, it just reminded me of some stuff I really like. It's a great morning album fyi

i really like this. and it sounds pretty contemporary to me. maybe one of the better "new album" experiences i've had in awhile

http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/28/un-blonde-brand-new-music-video

cute. <3 that he chose a song that is 1:35 long on the album to make a video for. this album has been a staple all summer, thanks for making this thread

getting reissued on vinyl

https://shop.flemisheye.com/collections/albums/products/034-good-will-come-to-you

promising! https://unblonde.bandcamp.com/track/nerve-of-the-ages-canada

signed to Anti in the us!

new name (Yves Jarvis), new tune:

https://youtu.be/xdw3Bx-WaQs

new name is bad, new tune is good

true. what's weird is his real name is perfectly nice, Jean-Sebastien Audet

new album is so good

finally got a chance to listen to this. It's really lovely, perfect dusk music. The scrappy/sketchy approach fits well alongside the new Solange.

lol just noticed there's a song called "Dew of the Dusk" which presumably put that idea in my head

um holy mother of god this new album is great. all the keyboards sound incredible, but even after the variety of the first 12 tracks i was surprised that 'that don't make it so' sounds so much like an outtake from d'angelo's voodoo

I tend to play this in situations where I can't pay attention to track names, but "Curtain of Rain" has really stood out for me

one of the best albums of the year so far

i also tend to just let this wash over me and don’t know track names but ‘The Truth’ is the one that’s on rn and man, u could just live in its balmy strum. he has a great knack for those gentle peeling curlicues of feedback

not necessarily that similar to YJ but this my other fav youngster montreal sick chops indie soul band https://sickmtl.bandcamp.com/album/conspiracy-theorist

This is just incredible. Would've easily been top 10 on my list, if I'd heard it in time...

extremely slept on

Checked it out after seeing it on Ted Gioia’s list. Liking it a lot, some similarity to the Kelsey Lu album which sadly seems to be overlooked in eoy polls.

Only thing in years that I've bought based on the cover, though tbf it was very cheap. Worth the few dollars of course.

brilliant album, though that first track kinda towers over the rest

the same by different means wound up my favorite album of the year last year. i stand in awe of its beauty.

anyway, he has a new track and it's very pretty laurel canyon vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnageGlIoI4

ooh I like this A LOT

new album coming in september!!

https://yvesjarvis.bandcamp.com/album/sundry-rock-song-stock

nice! starting to look like every single artist I like is going to release an album this year

is "For Props" new? I love it, as usual it reminds me of half a dozen other things without seeming at all imitative

listening to "Victim" again now and, damn, I'm pissed I have to wait until September for this whole thing (both tracks have pretty summer-haze atmospheres)

Victim is GORGEOUS

and so is this new one

new track on a new canadian charity compilation (which also features a cover by a certain musical ilxor)

https://evernewohcanada.bandcamp.com/track/all-the-way-home

new album out today! bout to dive in

https://yvesjarvis.bandcamp.com/album/sundry-rock-song-stock

i really love exploring the corners of this guy's mind. after first listen, feels less sprawling and ambitious than last year's album. the shorter track lengths of that one played to his advantage, i think. if there was an experiment you didn't like, it would be over in 90 seconds or less. this time, the experimental tracks drag a bit--but the poppier, ballad-y tracks are gorgeous and well-crafted. of course, first impressions usually mean little-to-zero when evaluating yves jarvis releases, considering how the same but by different means evolved in my mind from a pleasant curiosity to my favorite album of last year.

haven't listened to the new one yet but 'same by different means' is such a classic album

New album is probably a top 10 of the year for me. One of my best musical discoveries of the year.

beautiful review by andy cush https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/yves-jarvis-sundry-rock-song-stock/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The new album is so lovely. The best hangover album I've heard in a while

Yeah, this is awesome. The last album still eludes me a bit but I find I'm sinking into this one pretty easily.

new song "Projection"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9KdpIltTyc

and now a new song + new band: https://pitchfork.com/news/yves-jarvis-and-romy-lightman-form-new-band-announce-album-with-new-song-listen

not quite sure what I think of it tbh, I feel like it might make more sense in an album context?

new album 'the zug' came out last friday. i'm digging it, particularly this little groove machine of a track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMSpVKnPF3E

Holy shit thanks, how did I not hear about this?? Sundry Rock Song Stock was maybe my favorite album of 2020

starting to think that the zug is a major step up from sundry, and while it doesn’t approach the sprawl of the same but by different means, he makes up for it by packing his songs with fascinating diversions, and by focusing more on rhythm. he also seems to be an excellent guitar player

I'm not sure I ever listened to The Zug (should correct that...), but bandcamp alerted me to two of his new songs today and they are so good:

https://yvesjarvis.bandcamp.com/track/gold-filigree
https://yvesjarvis.bandcamp.com/track/the-knife-in-me

oh nice. "gold filigree" is amazing

not that "the knife in me" isn't, to be clear

yeah the latter is maybe a little slight (which is kind of a silly thing to say about any YJ track tbf) but Gold Filigree was def the one that really impressed me

his new album came out last friday, and it's great!

https://yvesjarvis.bandcamp.com/album/all-cylinders

“bootstrap jubilee” off the zug one of my favourite songs of the decade so far

Loving this thanks for the heads up

Omg this is wonderful

I meant to bump this yesterday as I've been listening to it a lot lately, really genius stuff! I was super stressed when it came out and the hyperactivity was too much then, but now I really love how he's crammed ideas and beautiful sounds into every bar

i kinda want him to make a whole album that sounds like first 30 seconds of “with a grain”

yeah co-sign all that, this is my favorite album of his since the same but by different means

agreed about "with a grain" which sounds about halfway between Resavoir and Fievel Is Glauque

Oh I did compare it to Zach Phillips when I first heard it!

One Gripe is such a jam

I am really in love with this album soooo good for spring

the videos he’s posting on instagram where he solos over clips of john mayer (and others) talking about his albums on podcasts are pretty hilarious

all cylinders just won the polaris prize: https://polarismusicprize.ca/blog/yves-jarvis-and-mustafa-win-2025-polaris-music-prize-album-and-song-honours/

nice! definitely still one of the highlights of the year for me, and probably the 2025 album I find easiest to listen to (complimentary)

hell yeah