Canadian psych-folk artist Yves Jarvis has announced a new album called The Zug. The project, which follows last year's Banned (a collaboration with Romy Lightman as Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band), is out May 13 via Flemish Eye/ANTI-.
Today, you can hear its lead single "Bootstrap Jubilee." Jarvis explores the outer reaches of humankind's history and puts it in the context of his own life, and none of these ruminations sound out of his grasp in his jaunty, smile-inducing new song.
There's a coziness to his cascading guitar lines and muffled vocal melodies like you're locked in a conversation with Jarvis rather than just hearing a song.
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