As Pulp release their first album in 24 years, the band talk about returning to the studio
Pulp have returned with a new album, their first in 24 years. Who could've predicted that?
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Not even the band, it turns out. 'It took us by surprise as well,' dynamic frontman Jarvis Cocker said. 'Why not?'
If there are casual Pulp fans, they do not make themselves known. The ambitious Britpop-and-then-some band emerged in the late 1970s in Sheffield, England, artistic outsiders with a penchant for the glam, grim, and in the case of Cocker, the gawky.
Fame eluded them until the mid-90s, and then it rushed in with the trend of Cool Britannia.
Jarvis Cocker, lead singer of British band Pulp, performs at the Brit Awards in 1996. Photo: AP
Their songs varied wildly from their contemporaries, like the recently reunited Blur and soon-to-be back together Oasis. Instead, Pulp's David Bowie-informed synth-pop arrived with humour, ambiguity and intellect – songs about sex and class consciousness that manage to be groovy, glib, awkward and amorous all at once.
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