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- Summary: This is the debut release for Jean-Sebastian Audet as Yves Jarvis (previous releases were under the name Un Blonde).
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- Record Label: Epitaph
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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The WireApr 3, 2019He has a fascinating rhythmic sense, phrasing almost like a man who is writing down his words as he sings them, which gives the record a strong sense of immediacy and almost improvised spontaneity. And yet the accompaniments are more elegantly constructed than that implies, a beguiling mixture of harmonic squidge and tight metrical control. [Apr 2019, p.57]
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Apr 3, 2019The Same but by Different Means is surprisingly seamless for a 22-track record. Like a Ouija board session, each track here feels part of a collective effort to access a realm outside our own. Sometimes, it leads to sustained moments of connection, like the radiant tropicalia sunshower of “Curtain of Rain.” At others, it yields sudden, surprising moments of rapture, like the beautiful melancholic chorus of “Hard to Say Bye.”
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Apr 3, 2019The fragmented patchwork nature of the album can at times make it difficult to separate the songs from the sonics, but adventurous listeners willing to get past this will find that Yves Jarvis hides beautifully soul-bearing sentiments just beneath his veneer of blurry tape manipulation and impressionistic production.
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Apr 3, 2019Most of the tracks allow room to breathe before going into a freefall decent of multi-influenced experimentation. Often times it's a rather subtle marriage of jazz and hip-hop ("That Don't Make It So"), gospel and funk ("Time and Place"), soul and folk ("Goodbye Reason, Goodbye Rhyme").
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Apr 3, 2019This album is a very modern "jazz" album for our post-everything culture, coming from the same Afro-futuristic camp as Thundercat and Kendrick Lamar.
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May 13, 2019
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