Biography
Jean-Sebastien Audet records under the name Yves Jarvis as a Montreal-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose experimental pop merges soul, psych, folk, post-punk, and lo-fi indie strands. Critical praise first arrived for the independently issued 2016 album Good Will Come to You under the earlier alias Un Blonde; after adopting the Yves Jarvis moniker he joined the Anti- roster in 2018. Subsequent releases on that label included the introspective analog textures of 2019’s The Same But by Different Means and the charged blend of electronic experimentation with tropical folk on 2022’s The Zug. His move to Next Door Records preceded the arrival of 2025’s All Cylinders.
Audet grew up in Calgary and began committing music to tape while still a teenager, testing different artistic personas across several aliases. By around 2012 he was issuing material as both Faux Fur and Darren Wantz, yet Un Blonde ultimately served as the project that unified his range of influences. After the 2015 release Water the Next Day he relocated to Montreal, where the cerebral indie soul of Good Will Come to You earned widespread notice. The album originated on the local cassette imprint Egg Paper before Flemish Eye gave it broader Canadian distribution in 2017. Late that year Audet declared his plan to proceed under the name Yves Jarvis, formed from his middle name and his mother’s surname.
Anti- soon signed him, issuing the ethereal single “Fruits of Disillusion” in 2018 ahead of his first full-length under the new identity. Additional singles preceded the expansive 22-track set The Same But by Different Means in early 2019. He followed with the more compact yet energetic third album Sundry Rock Song Stock in 2020. The fourth album, The Zug, appeared in 2022 and fused psychedelic folk reminiscent of the 1960s with abundant airy electronic textures. Upon completing his Anti- period, Jarvis shifted to the Canadian label Next Door Records for 2025’s All Cylinders, which was tracked between Montreal and Los Angeles and sustained the pairing of folk-rooted material with electronic and art-pop components.
Audet grew up in Calgary and began committing music to tape while still a teenager, testing different artistic personas across several aliases. By around 2012 he was issuing material as both Faux Fur and Darren Wantz, yet Un Blonde ultimately served as the project that unified his range of influences. After the 2015 release Water the Next Day he relocated to Montreal, where the cerebral indie soul of Good Will Come to You earned widespread notice. The album originated on the local cassette imprint Egg Paper before Flemish Eye gave it broader Canadian distribution in 2017. Late that year Audet declared his plan to proceed under the name Yves Jarvis, formed from his middle name and his mother’s surname.
Anti- soon signed him, issuing the ethereal single “Fruits of Disillusion” in 2018 ahead of his first full-length under the new identity. Additional singles preceded the expansive 22-track set The Same But by Different Means in early 2019. He followed with the more compact yet energetic third album Sundry Rock Song Stock in 2020. The fourth album, The Zug, appeared in 2022 and fused psychedelic folk reminiscent of the 1960s with abundant airy electronic textures. Upon completing his Anti- period, Jarvis shifted to the Canadian label Next Door Records for 2025’s All Cylinders, which was tracked between Montreal and Los Angeles and sustained the pairing of folk-rooted material with electronic and art-pop components.
Albums
Singles
