The Pulp announce the return album with a new single

“Blackberry“It is the title of the new pulp album. The disc was announced for the next 6 June And it will mark the return of the Jarvis Cocker band on the record scenes with a study job Twenty -four years after “We Love Life”.

The announcement comes a few months after the news that the Britpop icon group signed a record contract with the Rough Trade Records who had led fans to hope in new imminent music. The band’s entry into the roster of the British label history came after The Pulp met in 2023 for their first concerts of 2012during which they also presented unpublished songs such as “Farmer’s Market”, “My Sex”, “You’ve Got to Have Love”, “Background Noise” and “A Sunset”, as well as “Spike Island“. Just this last song, whose title refers to the historic concert of Stone Roses held in Spike Island, in Cheshire, in May 1990, it was Published today, April 10, as an anticipation of “More”. “Spike Island“, whose text derives from an idea born from Jason Buckleco-author of the song, who really participated in the historic Stone Roses concert and remembered a DJ who continued to shout: “Spike Island, like Alive! “.

Speaking of the video accompanied by the single, Cocker told in a press release: “I had been told that someone was interested in exploring the IA, and they asked me if I had some ideas. The first that came to mind was to animate the photographs that Rankin And Donald Milne they had taken for ‘Different Class‘: After all, in 1995 they were already an ‘artificial’ way of inserting us in real life situations and obtaining a cover while we were too busy registering to lay. “Initially I wanted to make a kind of video ‘Making of’ To show how the photos had been taken – but as soon as I inserted the first shot in the IA app, I realized that it would not have gone like this.

So I decided to “follow the flow” and see where the computer would bring me. “

He continued: “All the moving images in the video are the result of me who insert a photo and type a prompt, like: ‘The black and white figure remains motionless while the bus in the background moves away’ – and so the moment was born when the bus slips absurdly towards my cutout. That weekend in which I started working on the video was very strange: I was waiting for the home and I was waiting for the surrounding, conditioned by the images that the computer had generated. Julian House for the master’s work in post-production, e Rankin & Donald Milne for allowing me to use their material. As the text says at the end of the video, I think what they did for the Pulps in 1995 was’ Human Intelligence at Its Best, human intelligence at its best. My final thought? Hi forever! “.

The disc was recorded and mixed with Orbb Studio by Walthamstow (E17), with the production of James Ford. “More” is also the first album from the death of the bassist Steve Mackeydisappeared in 2023. “More” is dedicated to his memory.

According to what was taken from NME, the band He presented the disc in today’s morning at BBC 6 Music Confirming that the disc was ready “for a while” and that the wait between one album and the other seemed “a life”, even if the recording was completed in just three weeks.

“(Playing live) had a great influence – We played and they went back to life,” said Cocker: “We performed a new song towards the end of the tour, and nobody pulled something to us or went away to the bar. We chose to hurry this album … it was as if wanted go out”.

In an official statement on the album, Jarvis Cocker said:

“This is the first pulp album from ‘We love life’ of 2001. Yes: the first pulp album for 24 years. How is it possible? Well, when we went back on tour in 2023, during the soundchecks we tried a new song called ‘Hymn of the North’, which we played in the second evening at the Sheffield Arena. That opened the dams: we wrote the rest of the songs in the first half of the 2024. Some are filmed with ideas of the last century. Richard Hawleythat of another from Jason Buckle. The family Huge Sing the choirs in a song. There are arrangements of arches written by Richard Jones and performed by the Elysian Collective. The album was recorded in three weeks by James Ford In Walthamstow, London, starting November 18, 2024. It is the shortest time ever used to record a pulp disc. It was evident that it had to happen. These are the facts. We hope you like music. It was written and performed by four human beings of northern England, with the help of five other human beings from various areas of the British Islands. No ia was involved in the process.
This album is dedicated to Steve Mackey.
This is the best we can do.
Thanks for listening“.

Here are a tracklist and cover of “More”:
‘Spike Island’
‘Tina’
‘Grown Ups’
‘Slow Jam’
‘Farmers Market’
‘My Sex’
‘Got to Have Love’
‘Background noise’
‘Partial Eclipse’
‘A Hymn of the North’
‘A Sunset’