Yves Jarvis, recently dropped new single and video for “The Knife In Me,” the track is now available via Next Door Records. The song is off the artist’s forthcoming album, due out in early 2025 and follows his 2022 album The Zug. Of the “The Knife In Me” Yves says, “The sardonic masochist confronts the trauma of betrayal. RIYL: Claymation sequence of walking on the entire earth, Apollo 13 mission, staring out the window wistfully. Anderson .Paak, Stevie Wonder, Electric Light Orchestra.”

The video for “The Knife In Me,” directed by Derek Branscombe, depicts Yves in the kitchen of a Sushi restaurant, preparing dishes until he is stabbed by a fellow chef. From here, the kitchen catches fire, and Jarvis is ultimately shown slipping in and out of reality, creating a part-real, part-celestial scene.

“The Knife In Me” was recorded by plugging gear into a half-broken laptop. Whereas once Yves had favored the idea of “using magnetic dust as a medium,” now, he appreciates the value of working without any such preciousness.

Recorded on bare-bones Audacity, sans plugins, Yves says “The Knife In Me” has “no pretense, no self-indulgence, [it is] music for the sake of music,” channeling the spirit of Paul McCartney’s II. “Lyrics that matter. Vocals up front, where people will actually hear them. “If something’s true to you,” he explains, “it’s probably true to a million other people.”

Order “The Knife In Me” by Yves Jarvis HERE