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JARVIS COCKER "Jarvis" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.7
Users rating: 7.0 |
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Release: 23 Nov 2006
Label: Rough Trade
Genre: Pop, Rock
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 10.0 |
Jarvis Cocker, hero to a generation, crafter of anthems, wearer of distinctive glasses, wit, podcaster, Radio 4 presenter, talking head, songwriter for hire (for Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nancy Sinatra) and Paris emigre, is back. A jaw-dropping 27 years since forming Pulp, Jarvis has finally gotten round to releasing his debut solo album.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 10.0 |
Our guest editor's debut solo album is suffused with the fear of 21st century Britain, and is all the better for it, says Jon Savage
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 9.0 |
A decade after he first set an impossibly hard act to follow, Jarvis Cocker has returned with an album that knocks not only his ageing contemporaries, but many of his descendents, for six.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 8.0 |
Music remains a young man’s game. So it really is a pleasure to find that his first solo record can bear comparison with anything he’s produced.
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| Drowned in sound |
Rating: 8.0 |
Debut solo album from Pulp singer.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 8.0 |
It’s a record that is funny, witty and at times impossibly scathing whilst also remaining strangely beautiful.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 7.5 |
This album doesn't need rescuing.
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| NME |
Rating: 7.0 |
Jarv's back, and he's got a few things on his mind...
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 7.0 |
Travelling alone, without a map, makes for an unpredictable journey and "Jarvis" is necessarily the sound of a creative identity in flux. Those creative shakes will surely pass.
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| DustedMagazine |
Rating: 7.0 |
Jarvis, his not-quite-eponymous debut solo outing, is essentially a patchwork drawing from low and high points of his career - a quilt meant as a cover as well as an ornament.
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| CokeMachineGlow |
Rating: 6.8 |
This is a fine little pop album.
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| The Independent |
Rating: 6.0 |
The result may not be the masterpiece one might have hoped for, but it's a lot better than the last Pulp album, at least.
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| Uncut |
Rating: 6.0 |
The best comes last, with "Quantum Theory", which sounds exactly how everyone, deep down, wishes "The Drift" did: "Scott IV - the Sequel". A lambent ambient-orchestral arrangement, teeming with tingling sublimimals, frames Cocker's dream of a parallel-dimension paradise where "Everyone is happy… fish do not have bones… gravity can not reach us anymore… you are not alone."
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