Then within a couple of weeks, it had taken on a whole different meaning. We had received the first pressings of the single that night and I was really excited. We played a show to launch that single - I think it was March the 2nd, two weeks before the lockdown. “House Music All Night Long” turned out to be a timely quarantine theme song. He opened up about life in lockdown, staying creative, obsessing over pop music, growing up in nightclubs, Billie Eilish, Ray Bradbury, Pulp’s legacy, and why dancing to disco is his favorite kind of meditation.Ĭongratulations on the new record. Jarvis spoke to Rolling Stone in NYC for a long chat in February, then again via phone in May, after the world had turned upside down. Salinger in his distinctive Northern accent. He also began a “Bedtime Stories” series on Sunday evenings, reading selections from the works of Richard Brautigan, Tove Jansson, or J.D. He’s written an upcoming guide to creativity, This Book Is a Song. He went to Instagram Live for his “Domestic Disco” series of DJ gigs, spinning vinyl faves direct from his living room. So he’s spent the quarantine days searching out new creative avenues. (“Goddamn this claustrophobia!” Too real.) Always a prize live performer, he saw his summer tour get scuttled. The single, “House Music All Night Long,” became an all-too-timely ode to getting cooped up alone, listening to disco in your kitchen. The album was originally scheduled for May - but like everyone else, Jarvis got blindsided by a pandemic. It’s a masterful return for a true pop genius and the greatest U.K. With his new band Jarv Is…, he explores his favorite obsessions - lust, angst, neurosis, dancing, politics - over the louche grooves. His eagerly awaited new Beyond the Pale, out July 17th on Rough Trade, isn’t just his first album in a decade - it’s one of his most brilliant ever. ![]() ![]() In the Nineties, he crashed the British charts as the frontman of Pulp, turning into an unlikely sex god purring hits like “Common People” and “Disco 2000” on classics like Different Class. ![]() But he’s still not finished experimenting.
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