Today, the Montreal-based musician Yves Jarvis which is the moniker of Jean-Sébastien Yves Jarvis has dropped the new single and music video for “The Knife In Me” via Next Door Records.
A funky pop alterna-R&B soul track that is so far different from Yves’s previous efforts.
About the track by Yves:
“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.
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.
“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.””
The Knife in Me gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Yves Jarvis – The Knife in Me [Music Video]
