Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.\u201cPolymath\u201d is one of the misused words of music journalism, cousin to the even more hyperbolic \u201cgenius\u201d. In pop coverage it usually gets applied to musicians who play more than one instrument and do not fit neatly into a genre bracket \u2014 impressive, perhaps, but hardly the same as translating Sumerian while extracting DNA from an apple.A recipient of this overblown term is Canadian singer-songwriter Yves Jarvis. Born in Montreal as Jean-S\u00e9bastien Yves Audet, he plays all the instruments on his new album All Cylinders, which he has also produced. Its songs are filled with switches in direction and doublings back. \u201cIf this trail bifurcates, then I just have to choose,\u201d he sings in \u201cDecision Tree\u201d. The choice of language is telling: Jarvis takes the roundabout route when presented with a fork in the road.The danger for virtuosic musicians, egged on by the lavish praise they attract, is convolution. Cogs and wheels spin in ever greater profusion. Ideas are tossed around without being developed. The acoustic space comes to resemble a whiteboard crammed with the dense scribbles of a puzzling theorem. In that sense, All Cylinders has a foreboding title. But the results prove otherwise. \u201cWith a Grain\u201d has intricately layered guitar melodies and sudden crunching riffs, like abrupt gear changes. But the song is breezy, encapsulated by Jarvis\u2019s languid voice. \u201cGold Filigree\u201d has the mellow feel of a Prince slow jam. \u201cGet up while the sun is still out,\u201d he sings in \u201cOne Gripe\u201d. His slacker\u2019s refrain is set to the promptings of a cheerful drumbeat and bright guitar licks.The sound quality is warm and unfussy. Using cheap kit and a basic open-source recording app, Jarvis has deliberately avoided pristine production. \u201cI\u2019m Your Boy\u201d is elaborately arranged psychedelic pop in the grand west coast tradition, but the song\u2019s spontaneous character is summed up by an outbreak of raffish Rolling Stones-style riffing. All Cylinders negotiates its bifurcating paths with disarming ease.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 \u2018All Cylinders\u2019 is released by In Real Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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