Jarvis Cocker unveils new JARV IS… single Save The Whale


Jarvis Cocker introducing JARV IS... to Bluedot Festival 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Jarvis Cocker introducing JARV IS… to Bluedot Festival 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)




The 8-minute, green screen version of House Music All Night Long definitely puts them at least in the playoff places of the Lockdown Performances league table, and now JARV IS… have followed it up with a brand new track entitled Save The Whale.

“The title popped into my head as I was leaving the cinema after having seen Nick Broomfield’s Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love” documentary,” Jarvis Cocker reveals. “The Smooth World, Wrinkly World section came from a childhood memory of being ill: I would hear the murmuring of a large crowd accompanied by a visual image of a line-drawing (rather like a Patrick Caulfield painting, I’ve since realised) in which all the objects switched rapidly between being smooth and bulbous and then thin and wrinkly.”

“It used to absolutely terrify me. Weirdly enough, Jason (our electronics wizard) said he had a similar childhood experience except he used to see a teapot surrounded by psychedelic outlines of itself. Emma (our violinist & backing vocalist) found herself singing Smooth World, Wrinkly World as a lullaby to her 18 month-old daughter the other night. Pass it on.”

The single is lifted from the forthcoming debut JARV IS… album Beyond The Pale, due for release on July 17th after being built and mixed in London from recordings of live gigs which the collective have performed since 2017.

Beyond The Pale tracklist:

Side 1;
Save the Whale
Must I Evolve?
Am I Missing Something?

Side 2;
House Music All Night Long
Sometimes I am Pharaoh
Swanky Modes
Children of the Echo

Tour dates:

November
22 – Birmingham, O2 Institute
23 – Manchester, Albert Hall
25 – Glasgow, Barrowlands
27 – Liverpool, Invisible Wind Factory
28 – Bristol, Marble Factory
30 – London, The Roundhouse


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