Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time Video

Jarvis Cocker
Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
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Rough Trade
January 8 2007

'Jarvis' the album, Cocker's first solo album in his 25 year career, has been received more than favourably by fans and critics alike. It has been praised as the long awaited return of a great British icon and voice of a generation. Two one off London shows and a headline of the Les Inrocks festival in Paris, sold out immediately and hey presto, Jarvis is back.

Having released the now infamous 'Running The World' on download only in the summer, the first single proper is set to be released in January and will be the exquisite 'Don't Let Him Waste Your Time'. It is a track on the album that has been praised in many reviews.

When it kicks in with a bang, 'Don't Let Him Waste Your Time' takes an idea of grand musical scale and fits it within the swaggering frame of a memorable instant anthem. A cautionary tale about men's intransigence within relationships, Jarvis struts through it all telling it like it is: "Some skinny bitch walks by in some hotpants / And he's running out the door".

Written for Nancy Sinatra as "[his] blow for feminism", the most surprising thing for Jarvis was that the first song on his solo album should feature a saxophone break, something his previous self would have sworn blind would never happen. "But it is very quite and in the background," he adds, not entirely convincingly.