Pulp announce new album first New Album in nearly 24 years
“Extra”
to be launched 6.6.2025
Watch the video to first single ‘Spike Island’ right here:
UK tour in June together with two bought out nights on the 02 London
Pulp are blissful to announce their new album “Extra”, their first in nearly twenty-four years which shall be launched by way of Tough Commerce Information on June 6th, 2025. The album was recorded and combined at Orbb Studio in Walthamstow E17.
Restricted editions of the album shall be obtainable on vinyl. Together with a double LP lower at 45 rpm, which shall be unique to Pulp’s on-line store and Tough Commerce Information’ webstore, there may also be 4 single-disc color vinyl pressings which have been each handpicked and named by Jarvis Cocker personally.
Alongside the black LP there may also be a “Theresa” inexperienced LP obtainable throughout all retail, a “Blue Sky Considering” Marble LP, unique to unbiased report shops, a “South Yorkshire Sundown” Marble LP obtainable solely from outlets in Sheffield and “Isha Kriya”, an ink spot design, obtainable solely from Pulp and Tough Commerce Information’ on-line outlets.
Pulp return with anthemic earworm ‘Spike Island’. A mix of synths, violin and slide guitar, amplified by producer, James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines DC) who additionally produced the album.
Lyrically the thought for ‘Spike Island’ got here from Jason Buckle (Relaxed Muscle) who co-wrote the track and went to Stone Roses’ notorious Spike Island gig. A DJ there shouted, “Spike Island, come alive!” all day, getting on everyone’s nerves. That caught in Jarvis Cocker’s thoughts, inspiring him to write down a second track about Spike Island regardless of not going to the gig.
WORDS FROM JARVIS ON THE VIDEO FOR ‘SPIKE ISLAND’
“I used to be instructed that somebody was taken with investigating A.I. & did I’ve any concepts?
The primary concept I had was to animate the pictures that Rankin & Donald took for Totally different Class: in spite of everything, again in 1995 that they had been an “synthetic” manner of dropping us into real-life conditions & getting an album cowl carried out while we have been too busy recording the music for that album to pose for photos. No brainer.
It was my preliminary concept to provide a form of “making of” video that confirmed how the pictures had come to be taken – however as quickly as I fed the primary shot into the A.I. app I realised that wasn’t going to occur. So I determined to “float” & see the place the pc led me.
All of the shifting photos featured within the video are the results of me feeding in a nonetheless picture & then typing in a “immediate” equivalent to: “The black & white determine stays nonetheless while the bus within the background drives off” which led to the sequence the place the coach weirdly slides in the direction of the cut-out of me.
The weekend I started work on the video was an odd time: I went out of the home & saved anticipating bizarre transformations of the encompassing setting as a result of photos the pc had been producing. The expertise had marked me. I don’t know whether or not I’ve recovered but…..
I’ve to thank Julian Home for some knowledgeable post-production work & Rankin & Donald Milne for permitting me to make use of their work on this manner. Because it says in textual content on the finish of the video, I feel what they did for Pulp again in 1995 was “Human Intelligence at its finest”.
My closing thought? H.I. Perpetually!”
x Jarvis
WORDS FROM JARVIS ON “MORE”
“That is the primary Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Sure: the primary Pulp album for twenty-four years.
How did that occur?
Nicely: once we began touring once more in 2023, we practiced a brand new track known as “Hymn of the North” throughout soundchecks & ultimately performed it on the finish of our second night time at Sheffield Area. This appeared to open the floodgates: we got here up with the remainder of the songs on this album throughout the first half of 2024. A pair are revivals of concepts from final century. The music for one track was written by Richard Hawley. The music for one more was written by Jason Buckle. The Eno household sing backing vocals on a track. There are string preparations written by Richard Jones & performed by the Elysian Collective.
The album was recorded over 3 weeks by James Ford in Walthamstow, London, beginning on November 18th, 2024. That is the shortest period of time a Pulp album has ever taken to report. It was clearly able to occur.
These are the details.
We hope you benefit from the music. It was written & carried out by 4 human beings from the North of England, aided & abetted by 5 different human beings from numerous areas within the British Isles. No A.I. was concerned throughout the course of.
This album is devoted to Steve Mackey.
That is the most effective that we will do.
Thanks for listening.”
Album monitor itemizing:
Spike Island
Tina
Grown Ups
Sluggish Jam
Farmers Market
My Intercourse
Received To Have Love
Background Noise
Partial Eclipse
The Hymn of the North
A Sundown
Full UK and Eire Tour Dates are as follows:
June 7th – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
June 10th – Dublin, 3Arena
June 13th – London, The O2
June 14th – London, The O2
June 19th – Birmingham, Utilita Area
June 21st – Manchester, Co-op Stay
July 25th – Sheffield, Tramlines Pageant
For full particulars and ticket info, go to https://welovepulp.data/ Assist for the exhibits shall be introduced in the end. The sector tour precedes Pulp’s Sheffield homecoming which is able to see them headline a invoice they handpicked on the metropolis’s Tramlines Pageant at Hillsborough Park on 25 July.
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