The new name follows this spirit of change. “I felt like I had found, finally, phonetically, the perfect project name with Un Blonde,” Audet says. “I thought it evoked the proper imagery for all the shit I wanted to do.” But that was then, and this is now, and Audet is one to follow intuition. “I’m at a place where I feel like when I hear it, I don’t like it because I don’t identify with it at all. I knew I needed something that I could identify with.” Rise Yves Jarvis—his middle name matched with the surname of his mother.

Yves Jarvis is intended as a blank page after Un Blonde, but one thing that is retained is the creative fluidity. Back with his first music since 2019’s The Same But By Different Mean, last month saw the release of ‘Victim’, a brand new Yves Jarvis single that once again defies clear categorization. Laid out on a bed of soft vocals, the track doesn’t so much walk the line between folk and R&B as erase it, rising above to a plane of its own.

The track’s lyrics focus on this too, ruing attempts to constrain and sustain the notion of ‘normal’, coming to represent not only the overbearing desire for neat classification in art but across a wider context too. Beneath the languid rhythms, Audet is seething, describing himself as a “vitriolic mass of dynamite / just bound to ignite,” but the juxtaposition does not come across ironic or jarring. For this is an old anger, familiar and timeworn. It sits the palm like a pebble.

I’m a victor of process
and bound to result
just plowing the field
relentlessly to no end

I’m a victim of the same old stuff
my father was

‘Victim’ is out now via ANTI- Records and available via the Yves Jarvis Bandcamp page.

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Tracklisting:

1. Staying in Line – Un Blonde
2. Skinned Knees – Soccer Mommy
3. Dream Wave – Tiny Ruins
4. No Sadness/Furrowed Brow – Good Good Blood
5. Pain – LVL UP
6. Theory Wars – Pop Weirdos
7. Crab Line – Trust Fund
8. Heaven’s Gate – Ghost Camp
9. Holy Ghost – Deer Scout
10. Desert Blues – Nassau
11. Okkervil River R.I.P. – Okkervil River
12. Housemouse – Wyndwood
13. Smash – Varsity
14. Raised By Wolves – Eternals
15. Starting Again – Lisa Prank
16. Feel You – Pat Moon
17. Nothing – Naps
18. Everywhere A Man Can Be (Teaser) – Zachary Lucky
19. Mailbox – Alexandra Gordon
20. Ditmars – Rainwater
21. You Are on the Water – Ben Seretan
22. Pinesol – Fern Mayo

You can check out the previous monthly roundups here, and our various other playlists and mixtapes here. Thanks as always for getting us through another month. Here’s to a good August!

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The breezy ‘Celebration’ and earthy ‘On My Grind’ open the release, Audet blending vocals and field recording to great effect, before ‘Open Sesame’ really points to the scope of things with its urgent, mystical vibe. Similarly devotional instrumentals like ‘Exercise A’ and ‘Heat of the Afternoon’ offer landscapes which the other tracks populate, so when gentle, swelling folk songs like ‘Staying in Line’ arrive it feels like a convergence from four corners, the consequence of great distance travelled and firm belief in peace and joy. “Good will come to you,” he sings in the latter, echoing the title. “Good will come to me. Good will come to us.”

Indeed, much of the album is infused with this sense of positivity and goodwill, a sense of spirituality which binds the tracks despite their diversity. Many of the songs are short, succinct snatches and textures, and all are grounded with a certain intimacy, the spirituality not some vast cosmological fear but instead a human communion, joyous meetings of small groups of people thankful to be alive. From the tropical jam of ‘Take Me Higher’ and finger-clicking swells of ‘The Real Way’ to the sensual ‘A Level Playing Field’ and bluesy and soulful ‘Rain Cannot Change’, Good Will Come To Us is brimming with a confidence in the world, its inhabitants and their ability to transcend ‘normal’ existence in favour of something altogether more wonderful.

Good Will Come To You is actually the second part of a trilogy the label describes as “genre-spanning”, each of the three records exploring a different aspect of Audet’s musical talents. The first part, Water the Next Day, was released in April and sees an Un Blonde that use synths and electronic drums in place of the acoustic. Blending jazz with R&B and soul, here the songs are spheres and down-tempo and drowned in space. Audet is either lifting the avant garde into listenable territory or pushing popular R&B into exciting new place. 

You can buy  Water the Next Day and Good Will Come To You now via the Egg Paper Factory Bandcamp page or the Un Blonde Bandcamp page.

Photo by Derek Haussecker

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Sarah Winchester – Northeast Kingdom

(RIYL: folk, sad, A Weather, J. Tillman)

Sea Wolf – Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke

(RIYL: folk, indie rock, Leaves in the River)

Shipwrecks – Unknown Demos

(RIYL: folk, bedroom pop, sad)

Sledding With Tigers – A Necessary Bummer

(RIYL: folk punk, ramshackle fun, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Paul Baribeau)

Slow Violence – New Teen Angst Pt. 2

(RIYL: ambient, dream pop, super slo-mo R&B)

Splendidid – Finx

(RIYL: dream pop, surfing, summer)

The spookfish – Living Room

(RIYL: experimental, surreal synth pop, age-old folk music)

The Sweater I Gave You – Three / Four

(RIYL: indie pop, lo-fi, bedroom)

Swim Lessons – Winged and Wounded

(RIYL: indie pop, lo-fi, You Won’t)

Thad Kopec – Noble Neighbour

(RIYL: folk, americana, Blind Pilot, Bowerbirds)

Thorsten Nesch – Spilling the Beans

(RIYL: folk, lo-fi, acoustic)

Trashlord – One

(RIYL: punk, fuzzy indie rock, LVL Up)

TV Girl – French Exit

(RIYL: indie pop, hip hop, spoken word samples)

Two White Cranes – Twowhitecranes

(RIYL: folk, singer-songwriter, Emmy the Great)

Un Blonde – Habit Anything

(RIYL: lo-fi, experimental, art pop)

Unknown Tone Records – Unknown Tone Vol. III (Compilation)

(RIYL: ambient, experimental, field recordings)

Unradiant – S/T

(RIYL: ambient, downtempo, electronica)

Violeta Päivänkakkara – Kipinä​.​jp

(RIYL: electronic, folk, chill)

VVhile – More

(RIYL: lo-fi, noise, pop punk)

WALBERT MK – THE ‘WALBERT MK’ TAPE 2K14

(RIYL: pop, electronic, indie)

Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra – Well Soon

(RIYL: indie pop, acoustic, kazoos)

Water Music – Wolves

(RIYL: folk, indie rock Sparklehorse)

Wet Wood – s/t

(RIYL: experimental, psychedelic, krautrock)

Whatever, Dad – 100% Take Home! Grade Pending

(RIYL: bedroom pop, folk, lo-fi)

Wood Spider – Decadence

(RIYL: folk, punk, gypsy, Defiance Ohio)

The Yellow Dress – Faint Music // Ordinary Light

(RIYL: folk, indie pop, The Mountain Goats, The Magnetic Fields)

Favourite Free Music of 2014 (S-Z) from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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Tired Wires – Hark

(RIYL: ambient, experimental, film scores)

Thorsten Nesch – Stool Pigeon Heart

(RIYL: folk, americana, lo-fi)

2 Ton Bug – It’s A Wonderful Life

(RIYL: garage rock, dumpster punk, muscle music)

Tyra Lennie – Beyond Misty Pines

(RIYL: acoustic, folk, Laura Marling)

Un Blonde – What Surrounding

(RIYL: lo fi, indie rock, experimental, oddball, Women)

Vapour Night – Vapour Night

(RIYL: atmospheric indie rock, shoegaze, post-rock, electronic)

Watermelon – Cassette

(RIYL: garage rock, noise pop, lo-fi vocals. Song: HELL MOUTH)

Wayne Szalinski – Fondly True

(RIYL: math rock, riffs, angst)

Waxlimbs – World Makers

(RIYL: experimental, glitch, dance)

Welcome Center – Different Joys

(RIYL: indie pop, indie rock, Modest Mouse)

Wes Tirey – I Stood Among Trees

(RIYL: acoustic, traditional folk, Cormac McCarthy)

Wildarms – Just For Love

(RIYL: dream pop, experimental, chill, samples)

Wintercoats – Heartful

(RIYL: ambient, electronic folk, Sigur Ros, M83)

Without Features – Three Songs

(RIYL: folk, twee, indie pop)

Yakamoto Kotzuga – Rooms Of Emptiness EP

(RIYL: electronic, ambient, XXYYXX, Koreless)

Yellow Ostrich – Live at the Bowery Ballroom

(RIYL: indie rock, Strand of Oaks, The Antlers)

Yes Bear – Items

(RIYL: indie rock, math rock, punk, Japandroids)

The Yum Dee Days – It’s All Happening

(RIYL: pop punk, surf rock, lo-fi)

Zebra Katz – DRKLNG

(RIYL: hip hop, rap, minimal beats)

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