Pulp Return with First Album in 24 years, 'More'

Britpop Band Pulp Have Novenced Their First Album in 24 years, Blackberry. While The Jarvis Cocker-LeD Group Has Been Intermittently Active Over the Past Quarter-Century, Including at Magical Reunion Tour in 2024, they have released an album since 2001's We love life. That Will Change on June 6 with the arrival of More.

“Yes: The First Pulp Album for 24 Years,” Cocker Confirmed in a statement Thursday. “How Did That Happen? Well: When We Started Touring Again in 2023, We Practiced a New Song Called 'Hymn of the North' During Soundchecks & Possory Played it at the end of Our Second Night at Sheffield Arena. This Seed 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 revival of ideas from last century. “

Cocker Aided That Blackberry Was Recorded Over Three Weeks – “This is the Shortest Amount of Time a Pulp Album Has Ever Taken To Record. It was obviously Ready to Happen” – Starting in Nov. 2024 with producer James Ford. Cocker Also Dedicated The Album To Late Pulp Bassist Steve Mackey, Who Daed in March 2023.

“We Hope You Enjoy the Music. It was Written & performed by Four Human Beings from the North of England, Aided & Abted by Five Other Human Beings From Various Locations in the British Isles,” Cocker Quipped. “No to the Was Involution During the Process.”

The Subject of Ai Informs The Video for Blackberry'S Leadoff Song and First Single, “Spike Island,” Which was inspired by a Stone Roses Show at the Venue. “I was Told That Someone was Interestted in Investigating Ai & Did I Have Any Ideas?” Cocker Said. “The first idea I Had was to animated The Photographs That Rankin & Donald Took for Different Class: after all, back in 1995 they have been an 'artificial' way of dropping us into real-life situations & fee an album cover done Whilst we were too busy recording the music for that album to posse for pictures. No brainer. “

“It was My Initial Idea To produce a Kind of 'Making of' Video That Showed How The Photos Had as to Be Taken – But As Don The Fed The First Shot Into The Ai Ai Ai I Realized That Wasn't Going To Happen. I know the decide to 'Go with the Flow' & See Where The Computer Led Me. All the Moving Moving. images featured in the video are the result of me feeding in a styll image & then typing in a 'prompt' such as: 'The black & white figures remin iron whillst the bus in the background drives off, which led to the sequence where the coach weirdly slides towards the cut-out of me, cocker “cocker Continued.

“The Weekend I Began Work On The Video was a Strange Time: I Went Out of the House & Kept Expecting Weird Transformations of the Surrounding Environment Two to the Images The Computer Had Been Generating. The Experience Had Marked Me. I Don't Know Whether I've Recars Yet …” .. ”

More is available to preorder now via Rough Trade, Including “Four Single-Disc Color Vinyl Pressings That Have Been Both Handpicked and Named by Jarvis Cocker Personally.” In addition to the new album, Pulp Also Novenced a pair of co-headlining gigs with lcd soundsystem on sept. 25 and 26 at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl.

Blackberry Track list
Spike Island
Tina
Grown Ups
Slow Jam
Farmers Market
My Sex
Got to Have Love
Background Noise
Partial eclipse
The Hymn of the North
In Sunset