Pulp - Spike Island

Now we’re talking.

Reunion shows are all well and good (and in the case of Pulp’s 2023 comeback, very good) but nothing can surpass the feeling of hearing new music. Human beings always want More, and Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Mark Webber and Nick Banks have been listening.

It starts with a high-pitched whistle, a cymbal count-in, then erupts into glorious, technicolour Pulp. Accompanied by a bassline that’s just begging for a remix (no doubt on its way), the guitar lick is brand new yet instantly familiar. Jarvis, ever the master of human observation, is one step ahead as always with the opening line: ‘Something had stopped me dead in my tracks’. Yes, yes it has.

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