They gotta. With a comeback single, Spike Island, the month before. Doesn't get to number two but it doesn't matter, these will still be glory days.

It's got to be odds on this time surely. I'm going to try for tickets anyway.

Its a bit depressing in some ways to think that in this 30 years, the band have only produced 2 further albums, despite having never split up.

I do like the 2 Jarvis albums, the Relaxed Muscle one and the Jarv Is one. But imagine if we'd had a gentle stream of intervening Pulp ones too.

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Its a bit depressing in some ways to think that in this 30 years, the band have only produced 2 further albums, despite having never split up.

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Yes, and by the time they released their last album, they had enough residual material for two more or at the very least, one album and singles with b-sides.

If you look at other bands, Suede took a break of 10 years (with some justification I'd say, "A New Morning" isn't a complete disaster but just doesn't hold up well) then returned with 4 fantastic albums. The Manics and Divine Comedy have released quite a few decent albums since their heyday. In 2002, I thought that Pulp would be back within a few years with a great new album then they would pretty much do what Suede have. By the time "Further Complications" came out, it was pretty clear that this wasn't going to happen any time soon.

Hopefully the 2025 sets will include some new material that hasn't already been played and we get an album before the end of the year.