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10-06-2025
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Pulp's ‘More' Is a Master-Class Comeback Record
It's been almost a quarter century since Pulp's last album. But the Sheffield, England band — who disbanded after releasing 2001's We Love Life, reunited to tour in 2011 and again in 2023 — are back with More. The band's eighth full-length builds on Pulp's legacy of indie-disco bangers like 1995's 'Common People' and mini-epics like the title track to 1998's bummer ride This Is Hardcore. It's technically a reunion album, but it's not asking the question 'do you remember the first time?' as much as it is wondering what happens next, to often-revitalizing effect. These 11 songs represent an evolution of Pulp in both sound and outlook — something that should be inevitable after two and a half decades, but that is too often lacking from later releases by big-ticket outfits. Leader Jarvis Cocker still embodies a raffish, witty cool that inspires varying degrees of aspirationalism and envy, although now his croon's edges are a bit weathered, his world-weariness a bit softer and more informed by what he's lived through than any hell he might be anticipating. Songs like the triumphant 'Got To Have Love' possess a slow-burning grandeur that is made to send festival crowds into a frenzy—a hallmark of Pulp tunes — even as their arrangements, which are often delightfully heavy on the strings, feel more homespun than the orchestral flourishes of the band's '90s work. More from Rolling Stone It's the Perfect Time For a Pulp Reunion Pulp Return With First Album in 24 Years, 'More' Let's All Meet Up in the Year 2024: Why Pulp's Reunion Tour Is Pure Brit-Pop Magic Cocker was inspired to get the band back in the studio in part by the deaths of his mother and the band's longtime bassist Steve Mackey; More is the first album since Pulp's 1987 release Freaks to not feature his playing. A sense of mortality has always hung over Pulp's work, but moments like the rueful close of the glam spectacle 'Background Noise,' or even Cocker gasping 'hurry, 'cos my sex is running out of time' on the skeletal, absurdist 'My Sex,' bring it to the fore. More adds additional highlights to Pulp's already robust catalog. 'Grown Ups' opens as a jaunty remembrance of Cockers' days as a young scenester who was just learning the ins and outs of the bus; as time passes, the rhythm keeps up, but the lyrics grow more agitated as Cocker realizes that 'growing up' is full of drudgery and food consumed simply because it's time to do so. 'I'm sorry for asking/ But are we having fun yet?' he exclaims near the song's end, the answer obvious. The luminous, stretched-out love song 'Farmers Market' — where Cocker whispers and eventually wails, 'Ain't it time we started living?' when realizing that he's met a kindred spirit, obliquely asserting that going all in is the best way to defy the reaper's scythe — is a stunner, the delicate arrangement making its golden-hour parking lot setting nearly burst into brilliant view. For years, Pulp has realized the futility of trying to recapture youth probably better than most rock acts out there — after all, Cocker did sigh 'One day you'll be older too/ You might need someone who can pull you through,' on the Hardcore track 'Help the Aged.' At the time, Cocker was in his mid-thirties, and having a laugh about the whole thing; on More, though, he and his bandmates are delivering on that promise, working out their own creative impulses while giving their generational cohort — and anyone who might follow it — a glimpse of how getting older can be a chance to grab brilliance once again. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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23-05-2025
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Pulp Share New Single & Video 'Got To Have Love'
'Love' is a word I was unable to say until I was approaching 40', explains Jarvis Cocker, 'I listened to love songs all the time but couldn't use the word in real life. The words to this song are me having a word with myself about this state of affairs. I gave myself a real talking-to. I have now learnt how to say it whilst keeping a straight face. 'You've got to have love'. Oh yes you have.' Pulp are pleased to announce they are releasing a brand new single 'Got To Have Love'. The song offers a second taste of the new record – the band's first in almost 24 years, released on 6 June – following their acclaimed return with Spike Island in April. "It's a slightly hysterical song that tries to talk about love as I see it now," Jarvis Cocker reveals of the track, which seems destined for immediate live anthem status when the band kick off their UK & Ireland Arena tour in June, followed by more dates – including a full North American tour – later this year. A Jarvis Cocker-directed video for the track has been created which pairs the song with footage from the iconic 1977 Wigan Casino documentary directed by Tony Palmer. Weaving the footage of Northern Soul dancers together with Pulp's music, the video underlines the 'Got To Have Love' dancefloor credentials. 'I love dancing - & this is the best footage of dancing I've ever seen. I first saw it in Mark Leckey's 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' video' says Jarvis. We say: Get down.
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22-05-2025
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Pulp Share New Single & Video 'Got To Have Love'
'Love' is a word I was unable to say until I was approaching 40', explains Jarvis Cocker, 'I listened to love songs all the time but couldn't use the word in real life. The words to this song are me having a word with myself about this state of affairs. I gave myself a real talking-to. I have now learnt how to say it whilst keeping a straight face. 'You've got to have love'. Oh yes you have.' Pulp are pleased to announce they are releasing a brand new single 'Got To Have Love'. The song offers a second taste of the new record – the band's first in almost 24 years, released on 6 June – following their acclaimed return with Spike Island in April. "It's a slightly hysterical song that tries to talk about love as I see it now," Jarvis Cocker reveals of the track, which seems destined for immediate live anthem status when the band kick off their UK & Ireland Arena tour in June, followed by more dates – including a full North American tour – later this year. A Jarvis Cocker-directed video for the track has been created which pairs the song with footage from the iconic 1977 Wigan Casino documentary directed by Tony Palmer. Weaving the footage of Northern Soul dancers together with Pulp's music, the video underlines the 'Got To Have Love' dancefloor credentials. 'I love dancing - & this is the best footage of dancing I've ever seen. I first saw it in Mark Leckey's 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' video' says Jarvis. We say: Get down.
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22-05-2025
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Pulp Reveal Passionate New Song 'Got to Have Love': Stream
The post Pulp Reveal Passionate New Song 'Got to Have Love': Stream appeared first on Consequence. Pulp have returned with the rollicking new song 'Got to Have Love.' It's the second offering from More, the English group's first new album in 24 years, out on June 6th. With dramatic strings, disco-lite backing vocals, and a snare-heavy drum beat courtesy of Nick Banks, 'Got to Have Love' is Pulp's passionate argument for loving ourselves and one another. 'When love disappears, life disappears,' mutters Jarvis Cocker in earnest as the song's patient bridge unfolds, eventually building to some cathartic instructions about acknowledging our implicit need for love. Get Pulp Tickets Here 'So learn to say it, whilst keeping a straight face. Yeah, say it, say it for once. It's time to come to your senses, it's time to wake up and face the consequences. What do you need? I'm asking you a question, every one of you without exception, what do you need? Speak up! I mean, do you even know how to spell it? Well, I'll spell it for you…,' Cocker says before spelling out 'L-O-V-E.' The genuine emphasis on love and its transformative power is purposeful for Cocker and co. 'Love is a word I was unable to say until I was approaching 40,' Cocker wrote in a press release. 'I listened to love songs all the time but couldn't use the word in real life. The words to this song are me having a word with myself about this state of affairs. I gave myself a real talking-to. I have now learnt how to say it whilst keeping a straight face. You've got to have love. Oh yes you have.' To help drive home the utopian potential of that oh-so-important L-word, Pulp have paired 'Got to Have Love' with a powerful music video exhibiting footage from a 1977 Wigan Casino documentary. Throughout, dancers surrender to the moment, show off their best moves, and bask in the freeing power of dance. 'Wouldn't you love to be able to dance like this?' the video asks. 'Guess what? You can. Try it. Right now.' It's a pretty convincing sentiment. Watch the video below. 'Got to Have Love' follows April's 'Spike Island,' Pulp's first new song in 12 years and the lead single off More. The new album, which serves as their first without founding bassist Steve Mackey after he passed away in 2023, arrives on June 6th via Rough Trade. Pre-orders are ongoing. The band will support More with a major slate of 2025 tour dates, including a North American trek and a pair of co-headlining dates with LCD Soundsystem. The band's stateside run kicks off on September 4th in Atlanta, and continues through the month; see Pulp's 2025 tour dates below and get tickets here. Pulp 2025 North American Tour Dates: 09/04 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 09/06 — Washington, DC @ Anthem 09/09 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia 09/11 — Queens, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium 09/13 — Boston, MA @ The Stage at Suffolk Downs 09/16 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage 09/17 — Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple 09/20 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory 09/22 — Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 09/25 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl * 09/26 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl * * = w/ LCD Soundsystem Popular Posts Trump Warns Springsteen: "He Ought to Keep His Mouth Shut Until He's Back Into the Country" New Reality TV Show That Sees immigrants Compete for US Citizenship Has Backing of Trump Administration: Report Holy Shit, You Have to See Footage from System of a Down's Concert in Brazil Bruce Springsteen Gives Trump the Middle Finger with Another Defiant Concert Guns N' Roses Share Video of Axl Rose Repeatedly Falling Onstage: Watch Neil Young to Trump: "I'm Not Scared of You. Neither Are the Rest of Us" Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
