Still aged only 22, Cosmo Jarvis will release his new and third album Think Bigger on July 17, via 25th Frame/ The End Records.
He has just finished his first full-length feature film, entitled ‘Naughty Room’.
Cosmo’s music and films have made him an online phenomenon. His YouTube shorts, usually observational comedy skits about small town life, have been viewed almost three million times – his contagious shanty single ‘Gay Pirates’, beloved of Stephen Fry, picking up over a million Youtube hits alone, altsounds.com says.
His last two albums, 2009’s Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch and 2011’s Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange?, have seen him hightail between many musical styles, but with his new album, Think Bigger, Cosmo’s decided to adhere to a singer-songwriter template tinged with alt-country sensibilities and a string section sourced from Ebay.
Cosmo Jarvis (Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis) was born in New Jersey to an Armenian-American artist mother and an English sea captain father. The family moved to the UK when he was very small and Cosmo spent his formative years with his mother in Totnes, Devon after his parents split in initially acrimonious circumstances. His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble. He also developed a sideline in writing songs and making films. By the time he was in his late teens local appreciation had bloomed into a MySpace and Youtube following. Now a one man word-of-mouth industry who might just be about to receive the recognition he deserves, Cosmo’s work is unique, forthright, human and involving. He’s an artist, in other words, who’s proving truly exciting to follow, the report says.
