Lend Them Your Ears - 30/11/10 - Cosmo Jarvis

Delayed I'm afraid but it has turned up at last - it's this week's Lend Them Your Ears...

After a couple of Eastern European based weeks of Lend Them Your Ears, I bring you an English-American. An English-American called Cosmo Jarvis. Now, as well as a quite awesome name, Mr Jarvis has a whole host of amazing tunes up those sleeves of his. First and foremost is brilliant new single Gay Pirates, which is making a last minute burst to be my favourite song of 2010. It is certainly almost single-handedly making Jarvis' next album Is The World Strange or Am I? my most highly anticipated album of next year.

Now, Cosmo Jarvis has been around for a couple of years and has supported a number of big name acts such as Muse, The Holloways and Panic! At The Disco. His first release, the 2009 double album Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch, undeservedly failed to chart but things are looking up for Cosmo's new material - a combination of a superb video for Gay Pirates (check it out below) and a supportive mention from the illustrious tweetmeister general, Stephen Fry have started to garner interest in the Devon-based singer-songwriter's new material.



But why? Well Gay Pirates is ridiculously sweet with a darkness running through it that can't fail to entertain. It also has a certain amount in common with the songs on Cosmo's debut album, in that it has a uniqueness that never feels like it is forced or purely for show. And then there's the stupidly catchy 'Yo Ho Sebastian' refrain. Oh and of course, everyone loves pirates! Those cheeky hook-handed, scurvy-ridden gang-rapists...

Another thing that I like very much about Cosmo Jarvis is that he is the generous soul - offering a veritable treasure chest of material to download for free. His website - www.cosmojarvis.com contains an acoustic version of Gay Pirates and one half of the debut album (the Sonofabitch half in fact) which are yours in exchange for an email address or Facebook 'Like'. And what a fair exchange that is I say.

So I think it should be obvious now why Cosmo Jarvis is this week's featured artist in Lend Them Your Ears - sweet, genuine songs, lots of free material and a sense of humour.

Find more at
cosmojarvis.com
myspace.com/cosmojarvis
twitter.com/cosmojarvis

He is doing a number of dates in the South West of England in December so, if you get the chance, please do go and see him, it will be ace!