Frontman of former British pop/rock group Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, is set to release new material under the stylized monikered collective JARV IS… releasing their debut album, Beyond The Pale, via Rough Trade Records. The forthcoming JARV IS… debut album is slated for a May 1 release. JARV IS… at its inception was a group comprised of a slew of talent, according to Stereo Gum, featuring “… a consistent cast of musicians that included Serafina Steer, Emma Smith, Adam McKinney, Jason Buckle, and Adam Betts…It’s the first album’s worth of original music from Cocker in 11 years, since 2009’s Further Complications.”
The latest single from JARV IS…’s Beyond The Pale is “House Music All Night Long” a funky tune that is a throwback of sorts. The music video is a vibrantly loud, funk-tinged groove that parallels with various colorful palettes that are in full effect in the music video. The video also depicts household items and appliances that are a play on words for aptly listening to “House Music All Night Long.” As previously noted in the aforementioned Stereo Gum article, the latest single “…is an expansive six minutes of dancey placidity. A press release says that Cocker conceived of the band as a way to write songs in reaction to an audience, hence all those shows leading up to their debut album.”
As previously reported here on mxdwn, Cocker, “… recently released stripped-down version of his 2006 song ‘Running The World’ featuring Kaiser Quartett. ‘So here’s the story: about a month ago the Kaiser Quartett sent me a recording of their arrangement of ‘Running the World’ and asked if I’d consider singing on it,’ Cocker said. ‘So I did. The song will feature on one of their upcoming record releases but — given the current campaign — we thought you might like to get a sneak preview right now.”
Beyond The Pale Track List:
1. “Save The Whale”
2. “Must I Evolve?”
3. “Am I Missing Something?”
4. “House Music All Night Long”
5. “Sometimes I Am Pharaoh”
6. “Swanky Modes”
7. “Children Of The Echo”
TOUR DATES:
05/01 – London – Rough Trade East In-store
05/02 – Bristol – Marble Factory
05/03 – Birmingham – 02 Institute
05/05 – Manchester – Albert Hall
05/06 – Glasgow – Barrowlands
05/08 – Liverpool – Invisible Wind Factory
05/09 – London – Roundhouse
05/14 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere (Early Show)
05/14 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere (Late Show)
To listen to “House Music All Night Long” stream below, via YouTube.
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