Yves Jarvis — the moniker of Canadian musician Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet — has announced his new album, All Cylinders, due out Feb. 28, 2025 via In Real Life. The announcement was made today (Jan. 21).
After previously releasing music under the stage names Un Blonde and Faux Fur, Jarvis returns with a 16-rack reverie on his experimental rock album. Without a single additional contributor, Jarvis created the record in his home studios at sublet apartments in Montreal and Los Angeles, where he would roll out of bed and get straight to work on his half-broken laptop. The album was curated using the digital audio editor Audacity, sans plugins, which inspired its minimalist aesthetic.
Much of All Cylinders was recorded on bare-bones Audacity, channeling the spirit of Paul McCartney’s 1980 record, McCartney II. Jarvis draws on a wide array of influences, including Serge Gainsbourg, Judee Sill, Sheryl Crow, Captain Beefheart, Jackson Browne, Throbbing Gristle, Ray Charles, Brian Eno, Fleetwood Mac and Panic! At The Disco.
Known for his eclectic mix of folk, R&B, country, blues and Americana, Jarvis cites Frank Sinatra as a major influence on All Cylinders. He recalls listening primarily to Sinatra for a year, saying, “I wanted Sinatra’s clarity—the way the songs exist without him, as real things. And he’s the interpreter.” Whereas Jarvis had previously approached music as something sculptural — as compositions that emerge spontaneously from raw sonic material — “this time I just made a ton of songs,” he says: “I had tunes stuck in my head. I had choruses. I had actual parts. Instead of making a world, I thought: ‘I’m a band. The drums are there to keep the beat.’”
Reflecting on his creative journey, Jarvis says, “It’s not about trying to tell my story, fit in, or achieve any goal; it’s about trying to express something I’ve learned—some information I’ve received down the wire from the divine.” All Cylinders occupies a liminal space, shimmering between the real and the celestial. “Thank God I’m me,” he murmurs. “It would suck to be anybody else.”
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