After almost a quarter of a century, Pulp will follow up 2001's We Love Life with the highly anticipated album More to be released Friday 6th June 2025 by Rough Trade.
The album, officially announced on Thursday 10th April, will be comprised of 11 tracks, 7 of which have already received their live debut on recent tours:
*performed live during 2023/2024
Additionally, the Japanese release will feature an exclusive bonus track titled Open Strings, according to a listing on Amazon Japan.
The album is available to pre-order on several formats including 12" vinyl, CD, cassette and digital download. The Rough Trade online store features a number of bundles and special offers, including a store exclusive First Edition White Label LP with MP3 download and sticker which is available to pre-order this weekend only (until late on Sunday 12th April).
Jarvis, Candida, Nick and Mark joined Lauren Laverne live on her BBC 6 Music show for the first airplay of new single Spike Island, alongside the release of a somewhat controversial AI-generated promo video on Thursday morning. The news also briefly made the 6pm and 10pm bulletins on BBC One.
On Friday 11th April, BBC Radio Sheffield joined in the celebrations with two big interviews. A pre-recorded Jarvis popped up throughout Ellie Colton's Breakfast show from 6-10pm, while Nick called in on Toby Foster for a chinwag on the Afternoon show. Jarvis was also interviewed by Absolute Radio.
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Words from Jarvis via Rough Trade:
“This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for 24 years.
How did that happen?
Well: when we started touring again in 2023, we practiced a new song called “Hymn of the North” during soundchecks & eventually played it at the end of our second night at Sheffield Arena. This seemed 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 revivals of ideas from last century. The music for one song was written by Richard Hawley. The music for another was written by Jason Buckle. The Eno family sing backing vocals on a song. There are string arrangements written by Richard Jones & played by the Elysian Collective.
The album was recorded over 3 weeks by James Ford in Walthamstow, London, starting on November 18th, 2024. This is the shortest amount of time a Pulp album has ever taken to record. It was obviously ready to happen.
These are the facts.
We hope you enjoy the music. It was written & performed by four human beings from the North of England, aided & abetted by five other human beings from various locations in the British Isles. No A.I. was involved during the process.
This album is dedicated to Steve Mackey.
This is the best that we can do.
Thanks for listening.”
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