Jarvis Cocker has released his debut album with the JARV IS… collective today – have listen on New Music Friday.
Beyond The Pale is released after Cocker first began performing under this slightly adjusted guise back in 2017 with Serafina Steer, Emma Smith, Andrew McKinney, Jason Buckle and Adam Betts; indeed, the record’s bare bones are recordings of live performances which have taken place since that introduction at Sigur Ros’ Norður og Niður festival in Iceland.
“What emerges from a process which began semi-live is a record which – similar to Baxter Drury’s The Night Chancers – is about dislocation, libido and growing older, one free from bitterness and observed as ever from the peculiar, perceptive view of a natural storyteller,” our 8/10 review reads.
“This bemusement at the modern world first breaks cover on MUST I EVOLVE?, six-minutes-plus of tantric jam and lyrical ruminations on where we’ve all come from, bearing confused witness to now and the futility of turning into anything else. Motorik and bafflingly good, its counterpoint is House Music All Night Long, a masterpiece of understated shuffling funk and MOR flourishes that sees club music stripped of all its abandonment, a Sorted For E’s & Wizz with neither hedonism nor companionship.”