The track originally featured on the debut JARV IS… record Beyond The Pale.
Reggae pioneer Dennis Bovell has reinterpreted the JARV IS… track Swanky Modes.
It’ll be released as a physical single in June, featuring the main and dub mixes from the digital package which is available now.
“Cocker is one of those obsessives who (rightly) believes that 99% of all music must be viewed through what he calls the ‘pop prism’,” our review of Beyond The Pale reads.
“This means that Sometimes I Am Pharaoh – the undoubted peak of an album so far from twenties pop that they’re not even dots on their respective horizons, with its charismatic, alt-dancefloor vibes – will in his head be as much for mass consumption as the feeble autotuned jingles the painted children of now make.”
“Beyond The Pale isn’t going to seat Jarvis Cocker back at the table from which fame is served, nothing could. But on this admirable new chapter he revels in the fact and the realisation that conformity kills both art and the soul.”
Tour dates:
November
2 – Albert Hall, Manchester
3 – Boiler Shop, Newcastle
5 – Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool
6 – Marble Factory, Bristol
8 – O2 Institute, Birmingham
9 – The Roundhouse, London
11 – Barrowlands, Glasgow
12 – Octagon, Sheffield
