Beggars Group Canada

JARV IS… making adjustments.

Like everyone else we are trying to make sense of this new reality.
So:
The release of the album “Beyond the Pale” has been delayed. It will now be coming out on the 4th of September.

Also The JARV IS… tour has been postponed. The new dates are:
Sun-Nov-22 Birmingham O2 Institute
Mon-Nov-23 Manchester Albert Hall
Wed-Nov-25 Glasgow Barrowlands
Fri-Nov-27 Liverpool Invisible Wind Factory
Sat-Nov-28 Bristol Marble Factory
Mon-Nov-30 London The Roundhouse

(Those who bought tickets for the May tour will be able to use them for entry to these shows, obvs.)

It’s a drag to have to make these changes but we’re sure you understand why they’re necessary. We are looking into ways of doing some kind of “virtual performances” in the interim. We miss you!

IN THE MEANTIME
You can keep fit whilst cooped-up indoors by dancing to “House Music All Night Long” – suddenly lines such as “Saturday Night Cabin Fever in House Nation” & “Goddam this claustrophobia!” have taken on a new meaning – but a domestic disco really is quite a pleasant method of passing the time.
Shall we?

Stay safe – we will prevail!

Car Seat Headrest debut new single 'Martin'

Car Seat Headrest share a new song, Martin. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming new album Making A Door Less Open, set for release May 1 on Matador Records.

Described by Toledo as “one of the favourite songs that he’s ever written”, ‘Martin’ is a soaring and majestic ode of life-affirming pop.

‘Martin’ follows the first track released from the album, ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, which The Guardian described as “a hard left into a new sound (…) drum machines, synths and bass arranged in a broad space around Will Toledo’s hungover croak”, and MOJO called “unexpectedly groovy robo-pop”, while the i surmised, “this first single hints that they are heading in a new, electronic direction”.

Created over the course of four years, Making a Door Less Open is Car Seat Headrest’s first set of brand new songs since 2016’s Teens Of Denial. The album, the result of a fruitful “collaboration” between Car Seat Headrest and 1 Trait Danger, a CSH electronic side project consisting of drummer Andrew Katz and Toledo’s alternate persona, ‘Trait’, sees Toledo embarking on new and imaginative roads to songwriting and recording, placing emphasis on the individual songs, each with its own “special energy”, resulting his most dynamic and open-ended work to date. In addition, the album will be available in three distinct versions for digital, vinyl and CD.

Comprised of Will Toledo, Andrew Katz (drums), Ethan Ives (guitar) and Seth Dalby (bass), Car Seat Headrest has either released 11 or three albums to date, depending on the way you look at it. A prolific songwriter, Toledo took his moniker from making early recordings in the private environment of his family’s car, releasing a dozen self-recorded and produced albums on Bandcamp and building a tight-knit following. Toledo has since gone from an empty five-seater to selling out tours and filling festival main stages. 2015’s Teens of Style was a collection of songs from his early years. The band’s proper Matador debut, Teens of Denial, followed in 2016 and catapulted them to overnight commercial success and widespread critical acclaim, as well as highlighting Toledo as a prodigious lyricist. 2018’s Twin Fantasy, an epic re-imagination of an album originally released in 2011, demonstrated newfound scale, depth and ambition.

Car Seat Headrest will perform two shows in Toronto (June 3rd and 4th) and two shows in Vancouver (July 9th and 10th) to support the release of Making A Door Less Open

Perfume Genius - New Album 'Set My Heart On Fire Immediately' out May 15th via Matador

On May 15 Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) will release his 5th studio album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, via Matador Records.

Today, he shares the first single, Describe a track that captures a sense of living in the moment through a heavy fog of grizzly distortion and tumbling slide guitars.
Hadreas notes, “it started as a really somber ballad. It was very minimal and very slow. And then it turned into this beast of a song. I started writing about when you are in such a dark place that you don’t even remember what goodness is or what anything feels like. And so, the idea was having someone describe that to you, because you forgot or can’t get to it.” Its accompanying video, self-directed by Hadreas, envisions “an end of the world where there are no boundaries, there are no edges, no rules, or the rules are completely new with how you interact with each other and the space around you.”

The music video for “Describe” features Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich’s dance company The YC. Wallich and Hadreas worked together on 2019’s The Sun Still Burns Here, collaborative dance performance in which Hadreas wrote the music and performed.

Perfume Genius will join Tame Impala on a North American arena tour throughout the Spring and Summer. Dates include stops at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena (June 2nd), Montreal’s Centre Bell (June 3rd) and Vancouver’s Rogers Arena (August 5th)

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately sees Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and Matt Chamberlin. It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume Genius settled in 2017 with longtime partner and musical collaborator Alan Wyffels. Pre-order Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

The album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences. Throughout the album Hadreas plays with themes of love, sex, memory and the body, channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its own. “I wanted to feel more open, more free and spiritually wild,” says Hadreas, “and I’m in a place now where those feelings are very close— but it can border on being unhinged. I wrote these songs as a way to be more patient, more considered — to pull at all these chaotic threads hovering around me and weave them in to something warm, thoughtful and comforting”

The sense of communion and physicality was borne in part from Hadreas’ work on The Sun Still Burns Here. Already a formidable stage presence, it had elevated him to a rigorous multi-disciplinary performer. “I had been working with them for a year and a half. With lots of rehearsals, lots of performances, lots of relationships and energies, and I was feeling connected to my body. I was feeling connected to all their bodies. And having boundaries be blurred and having rules be gone and having all this play within nonsense and absurdity — in tandem with a real connection and truly valuable work.” In 2019, the show travelled to Boston, New York and Minneapolis after its Seattle debut.

Introducing caroline

caroline are pleased to share their debut live session and signing to Rough Trade Records.

“Dark blue” was shot in January 2020, in a disused swimming pool in North London.

London based caroline began as a three-piece (Jasper Llewellyn, Mike O’Malley, Casper Hughes) in early 2017, initially evolving out of weekly improvisation sessions. Bringing together shared influences in, and experiences of playing, midwestern ‘emo’ guitar music, Appalachian folk, minimalist classical and various forms of dance music.

The group spent a year and a half playing privately, without a project name. Reiterating, deconstructing and re-building the same small handful of songs over and over again, the group slowly expanded their on-stage members before playing their debut show as caroline in 2018. caroline are currently working on their debut album.

Montrealer Syv de Blare Signs to b4/4AD Releases new single “WAKE”

Syv de Blare is a newcomer on the avant-garde pop scene bound to shatter expectations and create a new sonic and visual lexicon. Hypnotic, sensual and futuristic; Syv’s unique sound and presence is undeniably pop, yet feels part of this generation’s New York, Paris or London underground.

Today marks the release of WAKE, the soaring new single by Syv de Blare, her first since signing to b4.

Along with the single comes a stunning video for the track “WAKE” conceptualized by Syv and co-directed with Margot Bowman (PrettyBird) and filmed by Kevin Hayden (Billie Eilish, Cardi B, Selena Gomez, Gucci). 

“I first conceptualized the video thinking about the performative facet of a relationship both with yourself, others and society as a whole,” Syv explains. In the video for “WAKE”, Syv embodies layered identities of womanhood; the Pop Star, the Showgirl, the Bride. “I chose to embody these three identities that define me but that also define many women. The bride persona in its essence embodies the idea of possession. The sensuous showgirl is an American symbol that personifies the idea of the woman as a commodified creature. Finally, the pop star represents decay and the pressures put on the female body.  We are often bound to perform these archetypes of femininity, crafted by a patriarchal society.”

On “WAKE,” Syv’s voice permeates the politics of womanhood with a message deeply rooted in re- envisioning what it means to perform femininity for ourselves and others. “WAKE” is a farewell letter to a lover, but most of all to oneself; it’s an ode to becoming once more. The track produced by ANGO and mixed by Heba Kadry (Björk, Blanck Mass, Zola Jesus, Princess Nokia) is a celestial banger best exemplifying Syv’s cyber-blues style. The lyrics move the listeners through the feeling of despair and resurface as a celebratory hymn for the many that have traversed the excruciating pain of betrayal and loneliness. 

A trained jazz vocalist, the singer and songwriter ended up on the mic at many storied club nights in her hometown of Montreal. Immersed in house and techno in her early teenage years, Syv’s style blossomed in Montreal’s electronic scene, revealing an energy and essence that is both classical and rebellious. 

Syv started recording her personal project while completing her BFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Now based in New York City, Syv’s creative process is anchored in art theory, while her background in photography informs a distinct approach to her work, both in her writing and art direction.

Syv describes her music as cyber-blues. “It lives on the cusp of past and future, it inherently feels ancestral and futuristic simultaneously,” Syv explains, adding: “My listeners need to feel home and displaced, terrestrial and otherworldly, nostalgic and hopeful. Those are the moments where music and art vibrates for me.”
Syv de Blare has the voice and vision of a post-modern iconoclast, an artist in charge of her ethos but nonetheless vulnerable enough to disrobe her truths before our eyes, sure to resonate with an audience in pursuit of inclusion and change.

Stay tuned for more music and news from Syv de Blare to come this Spring.