Pulp announce More, their first new album in two decades
Pulp have announced their first new album in 24 years. On June 6, the group returns with More, via Rough Trade. Today they’ve shared the first new single, “Spike Island,” which you can hear below.
The band is also playing a series of live dates this year, including a pair of shows with LCD Soundsystem. Check out those dates below.
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker released a statement about the new album:
“This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for 24 years.
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.”
Pulp’s Different Class is featured on our list of the 150 Best Albums of the 1990s.
Pulp More tracklist:
Spike Island
Tina
Grown Ups
Slow Jam
Farmers Market
My Sex
Got To Have Love
Background Noise
Partial Eclipse
The Hymn of the North
A Sunset
Pulp live dates:
June 7th – Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro
June 10th – Dublin, IE @ 3Arena
June 13th – London,UK @ The O2
June 14th – London,UK @ The O2
June 19th – Birmingham,UK @ Utilita Arena
June 21st – Manchester,UK @ Co-op Live
July 25th – Sheffield,UK @ Tramlines Festival
Sept 25th – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl^
Sept 26th – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl^
^ = w/ LCD Soundsystem
