The Zug Relies Heavily On Beats And Instruments At The Expense of Lyrics

I find little fault with the beats and instrumentation, but it is frustrating not to hear what the author is saying.

Judging from the song’s video, Yves Jarvis’s ‘At The Whims’ is a happy song. Near the song’s end, there’s a repetition of ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’. The video shows Jarvis dancing in the desert with his guitar.

While other reviewers have talked about Yves Jarvis’s catchy tunes, I think it’s difficult to hear what the singer is saying. And as if to punish streamers, no lyrics have been added to the singer’s new album, The Zug.

So while it’s a battle to hear what he’s saying, it’s a pleasure of sorts when you catch what he says.

On ‘You Offer A Mile’, Jarvis sings

You’re such a good friend to me

The majority of the songs on The Zug are short. ‘Prism Through Which I Perceive’ is one minute long.

In the autobiographical ‘Bootstrap Jubilee’, Jarvis sings about being in 1996. He sings about looking to music as a kid, and always knowing that he wanted to be a creative.

The album’s song titles are interesting. Take for example, ‘Gestalt’. It’s a German word for a psychological concept which says that ‘the whole of anything is greater than its parts’.

On Spotify, Jarvis writes that ‘The Zug’ is shorthand for Zugzwang, ‘a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one’s turn is a serious, often divisive, disadvantage’.

On ‘Why?’, there are inaudible voices of people talking in the background and an electronic loop.

Other than psychology, you can also say that Jarvis is interested in matters of justice. The song ‘On The Line’ starts with screaming and singers singing ‘Freedom on the line’.