Pulp have introduced their first new album for twenty-four years.
Jarvis Cocker and Pulp are releasing their first new album since 2001
The Britpop icons have revealed that ‘Extra’ – their first new document since ‘We Love Life’ in 2001 – shall be launched on June 6.
The album has been produced by James Ford and is devoted to the ‘Frequent Folks’ band’s late bassist Steve Mackey, who died on the age of 56 in 2023.
Frontman Jarvis Cocker advised BBC Radio 6 Music on Thursday (10.04.25) morning: “[Playing live] was an enormous affect on it – that we performed and the songs got here again to life.
“We did play one new tune in the direction of the top of the tour and nobody threw stuff at us or left to go to the bar.
“We selected to do it shortly… it wished to come back out.”
Pulp have additionally launched the brand new single ‘Spike Island’ – a nod to the legendary gig that The Stone Roses performed in Cheshire again in 1980 on the web site of a disused chemical plant.
Jarvis by no means attended the gig in query however mentioned he had “spoken to individuals who went and picked issues up second hand from it”, such because the tune’s co-writer Jason Buckle.
Discussing the album in additional element, the 61-year-old musician mentioned in a press release on Instagram: “That is the primary Pulp album since ‘We Love Life’ in 2001. Sure: the primary Pulp album for nearly 24 years. How did that occur?
“Effectively: once we began touring once more in 2023, we practiced a brand new tune known as ‘Hymn of the North’ throughout soundchecks and ultimately performed it on the finish of our second night time at Sheffield Area.
“This appeared to open the floodgates: we got here up with the remainder of the songs on this album in the course of the first half of 2024.
“A pair are revivals of concepts from the final century.
“The music for one tune was written by Richard Hawley. The music for an additional was written by Jason Buckle. The Eno household sing backing vocals on a tune. There are string preparations written by Richard Jones and performed by the Elysian Collective.
”The album was recorded over three weeks by James Ford in Walthamstow, London, beginning on November 18, 2024.
“That is the shortest period of time a Pulp album has ever taken to document within the fashionable period. It was clearly able to occur. These are the info.
”We hope you benefit from the music.
“It was written and carried out by 4 human beings from the North of England, aided and abetted by 5 different human beings from numerous places within the British Isles. No A.I. was concerned in the course of the course of.
”This album is devoted to Steve Mackey.
”That is the most effective that we are able to do.
”Thanks for listening.” (sic)
