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Leader Live
11 hours ago
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- Leader Live
Pulp on track to claim first number one album in 27 years
The rock outfit's latest offering, More, which is their first studio album since 2001's We Love Life, was released on Friday. The last time the Sheffield-based group topped the UK album charts was in 1998 with This Is Hardcore, which followed on from their best-known album, Different Class, which was released three years prior and is their only other chart-topping LP. The band are playing a number of gigs throughout the summer, including sets at Montreux Jazz Festival in July and Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival in August. The veteran rockers have a gap in their schedule between June 21 and July 10, which has fuelled speculation that they could be among the secret acts currently listed as 'TBA' in the line-up for Glastonbury Festival, which is taking place later this month. Elsewhere in the album charts, UK rapper Little Simz could land her personal best if her latest offering, Lotus, scores the number two spot. The London-born artist has had three of her albums chart in the UK, including Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, which peaked at number four and earned her the Mercury Prize in 2022. Addison Rae's mononymously named debut album is looking to enter the charts with her first ever top five. The TikTok star broke into the music scene in the past few years, with her most recent song, Fame Is A Gun, looking to make it into the top 20 singles charts while her album Addison is predicted to debut at number three. Welsh singer-songwriter Marina, whose real name is Marina Diamandis and is known by her former stage name, Marina and the Diamonds, is expected to reach number four in the album charts with Princess Of Power. My Chemical Romance could also rejoin the charts with Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge Deluxe Edition, more than 20 years after the album was first released. The second studio LP from the rock band previously peaked at number 34 in 2004, with the new release including 2025 remixes and bonus live tracks.
Wales Online
11 hours ago
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- Wales Online
Pulp on track to claim first number one album in 27 years
Pulp on track to claim first number one album in 27 years The rock outfit's latest offering, More, which is their first studio album since 2001's We Love Life, was released on Friday Jarvis Cocker of Pulp performing on stage at Finsbury Park in London (Image: PA Archive/PA Images ) Indie band Pulp are on track to earn their first number one album in 27 years, according to the Official Charts Company. The rock outfit's latest offering, More, which is their first studio album since 2001's We Love Life, was released on Friday. The last time the Sheffield-based group topped the UK album charts was in 1998 with This Is Hardcore, which followed on from their best-known album, Different Class, which was released three years prior and is their only other chart-topping LP. The band are playing a number of gigs throughout the summer, including sets at Montreux Jazz Festival in July and Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival in August. The veteran rockers have a gap in their schedule between June 21 and July 10, which has fuelled speculation that they could be among the secret acts currently listed as "TBA" in the line-up for Glastonbury Festival, which is taking place later this month. Elsewhere in the album charts, UK rapper Little Simz could land her personal best if her latest offering, Lotus, scores the number two spot. Article continues below The London-born artist has had three of her albums chart in the UK, including Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, which peaked at number four and earned her the Mercury Prize in 2022. Addison Rae's mononymously named debut album is looking to enter the charts with her first ever top five. The TikTok star broke into the music scene in the past few years, with her most recent song, Fame Is A Gun, looking to make it into the top 20 singles charts while her album Addison is predicted to debut at number three. Article continues below Welsh singer-songwriter Marina, whose real name is Marina Diamandis and is known by her former stage name, Marina and the Diamonds, is expected to reach number four in the album charts with Princess Of Power. My Chemical Romance could also rejoin the charts with Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge Deluxe Edition, more than 20 years after the album was first released. The second studio LP from the rock band previously peaked at number 34 in 2004, with the new release including 2025 remixes and bonus live tracks.
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
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
South Wales Argus
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- South Wales Argus
Pulp on track to claim first number one album in 27 years
The rock outfit's latest offering, More, which is their first studio album since 2001's We Love Life, was released on Friday. The last time the Sheffield-based group topped the UK album charts was in 1998 with This Is Hardcore, which followed on from their best-known album, Different Class, which was released three years prior and is their only other chart-topping LP. Jarvis Cocker of Pulp performing on stage at Finsbury Park in London in 2023 (Victoria Jones/PA) The band are playing a number of gigs throughout the summer, including sets at Montreux Jazz Festival in July and Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival in August. The veteran rockers have a gap in their schedule between June 21 and July 10, which has fuelled speculation that they could be among the secret acts currently listed as 'TBA' in the line-up for Glastonbury Festival, which is taking place later this month. Elsewhere in the album charts, UK rapper Little Simz could land her personal best if her latest offering, Lotus, scores the number two spot. The London-born artist has had three of her albums chart in the UK, including Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, which peaked at number four and earned her the Mercury Prize in 2022. Addison Rae's mononymously named debut album is looking to enter the charts with her first ever top five. Addison Rae attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Centre for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California (Doug Peters/PA) The TikTok star broke into the music scene in the past few years, with her most recent song, Fame Is A Gun, looking to make it into the top 20 singles charts while her album Addison is predicted to debut at number three. Welsh singer-songwriter Marina, whose real name is Marina Diamandis and is known by her former stage name, Marina and the Diamonds, is expected to reach number four in the album charts with Princess Of Power. My Chemical Romance could also rejoin the charts with Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge Deluxe Edition, more than 20 years after the album was first released. The second studio LP from the rock band previously peaked at number 34 in 2004, with the new release including 2025 remixes and bonus live tracks.
South Wales Guardian
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
Pulp on track to claim first number one album in 27 years
The rock outfit's latest offering, More, which is their first studio album since 2001's We Love Life, was released on Friday. The last time the Sheffield-based group topped the UK album charts was in 1998 with This Is Hardcore, which followed on from their best-known album, Different Class, which was released three years prior and is their only other chart-topping LP. The band are playing a number of gigs throughout the summer, including sets at Montreux Jazz Festival in July and Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival in August. The veteran rockers have a gap in their schedule between June 21 and July 10, which has fuelled speculation that they could be among the secret acts currently listed as 'TBA' in the line-up for Glastonbury Festival, which is taking place later this month. Elsewhere in the album charts, UK rapper Little Simz could land her personal best if her latest offering, Lotus, scores the number two spot. The London-born artist has had three of her albums chart in the UK, including Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, which peaked at number four and earned her the Mercury Prize in 2022. Addison Rae's mononymously named debut album is looking to enter the charts with her first ever top five. The TikTok star broke into the music scene in the past few years, with her most recent song, Fame Is A Gun, looking to make it into the top 20 singles charts while her album Addison is predicted to debut at number three. Welsh singer-songwriter Marina, whose real name is Marina Diamandis and is known by her former stage name, Marina and the Diamonds, is expected to reach number four in the album charts with Princess Of Power. My Chemical Romance could also rejoin the charts with Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge Deluxe Edition, more than 20 years after the album was first released. The second studio LP from the rock band previously peaked at number 34 in 2004, with the new release including 2025 remixes and bonus live tracks.
