It doesn't seem five minutes since I bought Cosmo's last album "Is The World Strange or Am I Strange?" and now I receive the news that not only does he have a new single out in July but the album is going to follow it days later. Single 'Love This' (above) is out on the 2nd of July and album 'Think Bigger' is out on July 9th. It seems that Cosmo has listened to my review as the [...]
Sorry, busy week, but we're sure you can just make do with imagining the boring words we'd write about these things. It's along the lines of "oh my God we love this it's our new favourite thing etc etc". Cosmo Jarvis 'Love This': Baby Monster 'City Of Lovers': Swiss Lips 'Danz':
Cosmo Jarvis is this week premiering a new single, "Love This" (July 2), the first cut to be taken from his new and third album, Think Bigger (out July 9), released via his own music and film label 25th Frame in the UK. If releasing your third album wasn't enough to be getting on with, Cosmo Jarvis - still aged only 22 - has just completed his first full-length feature film, entitled 'The Naughty Room' . Cosmo's music and films have made [...]
It's not every day we here at the 405 get sent an exclusive country-rock track from the deep south. Even rarer is when the deep south we referred to is in fact Devon. It took us a while to believe it, but Cosmo Jarvis (famously the creator of 'Gay Pirates') has released a track that sounds like it could have come straight out of the Bible belt. 'Sunshine' is so country that it has a chorus complimented by a choir of gruff voices all with a classic banjo backing. We also note the oddity that [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , New Releases Elina Kansikas Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis (aka Cosmo Jarvis ) certainly embodies the internationalism that his name evokes. Though born in New Jersey, Jarvis quickly decamped to Devon, England with his family. There, the young singer-songwriter began making a name for himself peddling witty, homespun folk confections. Now, Jarvis is back with his third album, Think Bigger , out July 3 via The [...]
With Austin's annual South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival just around the corner, we thought we would help you streamline your hectic concert-going schedule by selecting our 11 must-see acts. The event transforms Texas into a week-long mecca for indie bands and alt-rockers, but there is no shortage of expert pop practitioners in the bumper lineup. From enigmatic '90s singer-songwriter Fiona Apple to the groove-smothered, synthy hip-hop leanings of Penguin Prison, there is something for everyone this year. Make sure you drop by our second annual Pray For Pop party on March 14, where a number of these not-to-be-missed [...]
This is by no stretch a perfect album, but is one of the most imaginative and far-reaching ones you're likely to hear from an ostensibly mainstream pop artist this year. Full disclosure: this record is a bit of mess. At least at first. Cosmo Jarvis moves between pop, snotty, Green Day-like punk, ska, reggae, hip-hop, and even a dash of heavy metal (sometimes in the space of a bridge and a chorus) with an effortlessness and a carelessness that you have to stand back and admire time and again across this disc. True to the restlessness exhibited here [...]
Following in Schonberg's footsteps I attempted to buy 12 albums during 2011. Did I do it? Well as I type this I honestly don't know, so together let's have a look at the albums I bought and see how I got on. As I think it will be close, I'm going to count all albums I bought, whether they were released in 2011 or not - I may revise this if I easily make it! [...]
With probably the longest entry of 2011 we give the floor to regular MM contributor and top ten compiler...Dr Roddy. Well it seems to be that time of year again. I always spend 340 days looking forward to doing this and 25 agonising over it. This year especially though, as I think there has been a bumper harvest of great songs. When I looked at my Top Ten playlist (with over 100 songs in it) I just thought one thing: bugger! I got there in the end though. There have been certain parties that have tried [...]
Following from The Best Music Videos of 2011, Christmas is All Around and Christmas Is All Around – The Mixtape (not end of the year lists, but something to check out..) posted a few days ago comes The Best Albums of 2011! 2011 was a great music year and resulted in some pretty good releases. So, to keep on making this intro short; [...]
Complete with a reggae vibe, Cosmo Jarvis ' latest has the potential to get annoying quickly - but for now, at least, it works perfectly as a sweet, slow sashay up through the Sunday morning gears. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
[Gotcha Covered] - Cosmo Jarvis covers Grateful Dead // A new favourite covering an old favourite… Jarvis delivers a fine version of the Dead's Friend Of The Devil from their album American Beauty (1970).
Cosmo Jarvis released his new album 'Is the World Strange or Am I Strange' earlier this month. Up next for him is 'She Doesn't Mind', a new single out on the 20th of November. There's always a bit of humour in Cosmo's videos, and this promo will make you laugh. You can grab the song for free from this previous MP3 of the Day post. Click here to view the embedded video.
Nowadays, pop music has plenty of weirdness to it (See: Gwar, all screamo bands). It also has enough singer-songwriters to fill a million coffee shops. But rare is the artist who is really weird and still wonderfully talented. Cue New Jersey-born, England-raised artist Cosmo Jarvis . Already something of a big deal in the UK , Jarvis returns with his sophomore album, a wacky, emotionally resonant collection of songs with the best kind of musical ADHD out there. Defining Jarvis isn't overly difficult, but doing so feels as if you're limiting something truly [...]
Watch and download Cosmo Jarvis' cover of Kylie Minogue's 'Spinning Around' for Triple J.
Cosmo Jarvis -Is the World Strange, Or Am I Strange? // Dear Friday, you're sure as hell not Jesus but you're saving me. And there is more, much much more, where this quirky little ditty came from. With 270 songs and 65 films under his belt, this 22-year old Brit is the full indie package. Cosmo Jarvis is an accomplished filmmaker in the midst of producing his first feature, a talented musician and composer, and a live theatrical extraordinaire. His innately crude British humor offers a [...]
It's another week in the modern music world, and videos continue to drop like the leaves. Some of our favorite rappers put out some new visuals this week, some indie gems were able to shine through, and America's favorite (not so) single lady, Beyonce, showed everyone that she's still "a whole lot of woman." Now that the internet has taken over the music video industry, we all don't have to wait for a video to pop up during steady rotation. It's available at the click of a button. And as always, we here at Cluster 1 want you to be [...]
Some people just aren't satisfied giving their music over to others to craft music videos. New Jersey-born, England-raised Cosmo Jarvis found his way around this by putting himself both behind and in front of the camera. The whimsical singer-songwriter-director first pulled this feat for his hilarious, creative, and poignant "Gay Pirates" clip, and he's done it again with his latest single, "She Doesn't Mind". In the clip, our boy Jarvis has met an unbelievably wonderful woman-like, actually unbelievable. She's apparently a trombonist, an accomplished author, multilingual, a Nobel laureate for fixing global warming over breakfast, [...]
Cosmo Jarvis ( facebook / twitter ) is somewhat of an odd character. We had the joy of having his energetic and musically experimental set as part of our showcase in Dingwalls back in May, and now he's followed up the wonderful Sure As Hell Not Jesus EP with a full length in Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange. My favourites from his Jesus EP have made the moves onto the EP - Gay Pirates is an amusing cheery sing-a-long sea-shanty, and Sure As Hell Not Jesus is still on the money with [...]
Cosmo Jarvis is certainly an interesting artist. He's not one to allow himself to be pigeonholed into a particular genre and this is extremely evident on his second album Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange? . In fact the only thing that you can say for definite about him through this, is just how socially conscious he is; a fact which is unsurprising to anyone who's heard him before. When then listening to the album, then, it is important to understand that this is an artist not bound by specific musical genres as most [...]
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