Pulp have announced their first new album in almost 24 years entitled ‘More’, due out on 06 June 2025 via Rough Trade Records.

Recorded and mixed at Orbb Studio in Walthamstow, E17, the news is accompanied by anthemic first single ‘Spike Island’ – a bold blend of synths, violin, and slide guitar, elevated by renowned producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines D.C.), who also produced the entire album.

Lyrically, the idea for ‘Spike Island’ was sparked by Jason Buckle (Relaxed Muscle), who co-wrote the track and attended the legendary Stone Roses gig at Spike Island. Throughout the day, a DJ repeatedly shouted, “Spike Island, come alive!” – a phrase that grated on the crowd but lodged itself in Jarvis Cocker’s memory. Though he didn’t attend the show himself, the line inspired him to write a second song about the event.

WORDS FROM JARVIS ON THE VIDEO FOR ‘SPIKE ISLAND’:

“I was told that someone was interested in investigating A.I. & did I have any ideas?

The first idea I had was to animate the photographs that Rankin & Donald took for Different Class: after all, back in 1995 they had been an “artificial” way of dropping us into real-life situations & getting an album cover done whilst we were too busy recording the music for that album to pose for pictures. No brainer.

It was my initial idea to produce a kind of “making of” video that showed how the photos had come to be taken – but as soon as I fed the first shot into the A.I. app I realised that wasn’t going to happen. So I decided to “go with the flow” & see where the computer led me.

All the moving images featured in the video are the result of me feeding in a still image & then typing in a “prompt” such as: “The black & white figure remains still whilst the bus in the background drives off” which led to the sequence where the coach weirdly slides towards the cut-out of me.

The weekend I began work on the video was a strange time: I went out of the house & kept expecting weird transformations of the surrounding environment due to the images the computer had been generating. The experience had marked me. I don’t know whether I’ve recovered yet…..

I have to thank Julian House for some expert post-production work & Rankin & Donald Milne for allowing me to use their work in this way. As it says in text at the end of the video, I think what they did for Pulp back in 1995 was “Human Intelligence at its best”.

My final thought? H.I. Forever!”

x Jarvis

WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO HERE:

WORDS FROM JARVIS ON ‘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 & played by the Elysian Collective.

The album was recorded over 3 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 & 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.”

Limited editions of the album will be available on vinyl. Along with a double LP cut at 45 rpm, which will be exclusive to Pulp’s online shop and Rough Trade Records’ webstore, there will also be four single-disc colour vinyl pressings that have been both handpicked and named by Jarvis Cocker personally.

Alongside the black LP there will also be a “Theresa” green LP available across all retail, a “Blue Sky Thinking” Marble LP, exclusive to independent record stores, a “South Yorkshire Sunset” Marble LP available only from shops in Sheffield and “Isha Kriya”, an ink spot design, available exclusively from Pulp and Rough Trade Records’ online shops.

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE:

You deserve … More.
Pulp’s brand new album will be released on 6 June 2025. Listen to the single Spike Island and pre-order your copy now at https://t.co/pzp9iLc9k4. #pulplovegivingyoumore pic.twitter.com/A9IhBt9fdy

— Pulp (@welovepulp) April 10, 2025

Pulp 2025 UK & Ireland Tour Dates:

Glasgow OVO Hydro, 07 June
Dublin 3Arena, 10
London The O2, 13
London The O2, 14
Birmingham Utilita Arena, 19
Manchester Co-op Live, 21 June

Remaining tickets on sale now from Ticketmaster AXS

VIP Tickets & Hospitality Packages from Seat Unique

The arena tour precedes the band’s huge Sheffield homecoming show, which will see them headline a bill they handpicked at the city’s Tramlines Festival at Hillsborough Park on 25 July.

Pulp ‘More’ Full Album Tracklisting:

Spike Island
Tina
Grown Ups
Slow Jam
Farmers Market
My Sex
Got To Have Love
Background Noise
Partial Eclipse
The Hymn of the North
A Sunset

Image Credit: Tom Jackson / PRESS