Yves Jarvis projects the image of the mad scientist in his laboratory ecstatic in front of his new invention. Through the 14 new songs (over 32 short minutes!) of The Zug, the Montrealer demonstrates boundless creativity, even if it means sacrificing composition for the benefit of a fertile little idea. This is how we navigate between folk-pop songs (At the Whims in opening, the excellent Jubilee Bootstrapthe beatlesque stitchwork), the nods to the Tropicália movement of sixties brazilian (Prism Through Which I Perceive) and mindless sound experiments like Gestaltwhich sounds like a lounge orchestra tumbling down a staircase, or the cut-up funk-rock of Thrust which follows (and on which we even think we hear him sneeze). As usual, Jarvis plays almost all the instruments, produces himself with this attention to sound detail that makes listening to his albums so pleasant. These songs are done with such playfulness that even the most arid and confusing passages sound welcoming.
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