Pulp Back For ‘More,’ Shares ‘Spike Island’ Single From 1st New Album In 24 Years

Pulp will release their long-awaited new album, More, on June 6 through Rough Trade Records. The British rock band’s first album in nearly 24 years features the lead single, “Spike Island.”

Pulp worked with producer James Ford on the follow-up to their 2001 album, We Love Life. The 11-track LP was recorded and mixed at Orbb Studio in East London. One track includes backing vocals by the Eno family. String arrangements were written by Richard Jones and performed by the Elysian Collective. Richard Hawley and Jason Buckle each wrote music to a song on the album.

Pulp dedicated More to the band’s late former bassist Steve Mackey. Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker shared the below statement regarding More:

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 and played by the Elysian Collective.

The album was recorded over three 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 and 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.

Co-written by Jason Buckle, “Spike Island” arrived with an accompanying official music video:

More Tracklist

1. Spike Island
2. Tina
3. Grown Ups
4. Slow Jam
5. Farmers Market
6. My Sex
7. Got To Have Love
8. Background Noise
9. Partial Eclipse
10. The Hymn of the North
11. A Sunset