JARVIS COCKER And PULP Still In A Different Class After 24 Years – Hear New Album ‘MORE’ Here
6 June 2025
New album artwork
Sheffield‘s guitar-pop heroes PULP released, between 1983 and 2002, seven
good-to-superb albums, with the breakthrough one Different Class, turning
30 next October, as their magnum opus. It spawned their two biggest hits with
Common People and Disco 2000.
Afterward the band went on a long hiatus, used by
charismatic vocalist/songwriter Jarvis Cocker to start
some solo projects.
They reunited for 2 years (2011-2013), to play some huge
big money concerts, went away again and are doing the
reunion game again since 2022.
And today they released their first album in 24 years with MORE.
Cocker: “When we started touring again in 2023, we practiced a new song called “Hymn of the North” during soundchecks and 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 and played by the Elysian Collective.
We hope you enjoy the music. It was written and performed by four human beings from the
North of England, aided and 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 (note: the band’s
longtime bassist who passed away 2 years ago, only aged 56).
This is the best that we can do.
Thanks for listening.”
NME: “Drenched in synths and strings and aided by producer James Ford’s knack for making the music feel alive and omnipresent, ‘More’ is everything you’d want a Pulp album to be, made richer from some lived experience. Just as Blur did with ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ and Suede have managed on their immaculate run of post-reunion albums, Pulp have retained their original spirit and flair into a statement of middle age without feeling any less vital.
As Cocker pines on the cinematic closer ‘A Sunset’, all things end, so just make the
most of the time you have. It’s strangely beautiful, now they’re all fully grown.”
Press photo
TUTV: More is Pulp‘s big brother/sister of their triumphant 1995 Britpop LP
Different Class. It sounds more balanced, displaying first and foremost Jarvis
Cocker‘s
5-star songwriting skills.
Except for singles Spike Island and Got To Have Love you’ll find less euphoric tunes
(like classic crackers Common People and Disco 2000) here, than on DC, but more
impassioned daily-life-inspired musings/reveries (Grow Ups / My Sex / Background
Noise and the magnific closer A Sunset).
Yes, Jarvis Cocker is 30 years older (61 now), but it doesn’t affect
his passion for writing/performing powerful heart-and-soul music.
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