Pulp Launch More - Their First Album for nearly 24 years

There are few bands from the original Brit Pop era that are more iconic than Pulp. Boasting hits like Common People and Sorted for E's & Wizz they somehow managed to mix a sense of fun, style and genuine quality music that just landed properly. Not to mention the character of Jarvis Cocker helping to catapault them to the limelight.

It seems a little obvious, but its a shame we haven't had an album from them since the turn of the millennium, well that is until now.  Pulp have launch "More" their first studio album since "We Love Life" back in 2001. 

So we thought we would get the lowdown from Jarvis himself

How did that happen?

Well: when we started touring again in 2023, we practiced a new song called “Hymn of the North” during soundchecks & eventually played it at the end of our second night at Sheffield Arena. This seemed to open the floodgates: we came up with the rest of the songs on this album during the first half of 2024. A couple are revivals of ideas from last century. The music for one song was written by Richard Hawley. The music for another was written by Jason Buckle. The Eno family sing backing vocals on a song. There are string arrangements written by Richard Jones & played by the Elysian Collective.

The album was recorded over 3 weeks by James Ford in Walthamstow, London, starting on November 18th, 2024. This is the shortest amount of time a Pulp album has ever taken to record. It was obviously ready to happen.

These are the facts.

We hope you enjoy the music. It was written & performed by four human beings from the North of England, aided & abetted by five other human beings from various locations in the British Isles. No A.I. was involved during the process.

This album is dedicated to Steve Mackey.

This is the best that we can do.

Thanks for listening.”

The album promises to fulfil the need for a big Pulp shaped hole in our music collections and will no doubt bring the sound to a new generation of music lovers.
 

Tracklisting:

1. Spike Island
2. Tina
3. Grown Ups
4. Slow Jam
5. Farmers Market
6. My Sex
7. Got to Have Love
8. Background Noise
9. Partial Eclipse
10. The Hymn of the North
11. A Sunset

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