PULP - More LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition "Theresa" dark green colour vinyl. CD also available.

Pulp prepares for the future by looking back through life and learning, with More providing a staggering set of songs which muse on growing up, but not growing old.

A knock to the confidence of frontman Jarvis Cocker puts him on an unlikely course. A Pulp reunion celebrating This is Hardcore morphed into something the band were surely not expecting. Their first album in 24 years, More, is a tackling of familiar subjects from a new angle. There is still the flair, sarcasm, and spirit which define the band and their classics, but there is now an instinctual guidance, a sense of following the heart rather than fearing it, at play.

Pulp has succeeded where most bands fail. Reinvention is not the purpose of a reunion, nor is reflection. Both are routes to lazy nostalgia. There may be plenty of callbacks tucked neatly into More, but this only adds to the spirit and growth heard throughout. Cocker and the gang pull at the past in the hope of figuring out the future, and they make an impressive show of it.