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Mad to think that across the world (well, UK mostly), a couple of dozen or more music reviewers are currently enjoying the fruits of the official Pulp comeback and ready to file copy to give the album an 89% average on Rotten Tomatoes or whatever the music equivalent is (MetaCritic?)...

 

New edition of Mojo is out, no more Pulp peering out from magazine stands, sadly. Gallagher-time.

 

Also, this review of More is not the main one (Stereolab) or even the second or third longest. I don't know how they decide on coverage - we'll give them a cover story in advance but won't dissect the album when it's reviewed the following month?

 

The album is also on the back cover with a full page advert. Can't give it a bad review now, right?

 

Anyway...it's Four stars out of Five ("and that's unheard of" to quote their fellow-Sheffield brethren) - encouraging but c'mon John, why not the full five...

 

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thanx ! 3 weeks to go.

 

I hate when they compare to other songs from other bands, most of the time it sounds nothing alike. 



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I didn't know Subculture cause I'm not a big big New Order fan. It's great, very disco, could easily fit in Pulp discog
the world needs a new disco anthem.

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It depends on which "Subculture" we are talking about, the version on the Low Life album has nothing to do with the version on the 12".



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When I read that re: Sub-Culture I thought hmmm ok thats interesting. Recently saw New Order here and they played Sub-Culture. Got very into it!

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I didnt know the song, i listened to one version, it sounded like a very unfinished vocals. Yet apparently its on an album. I get the Pulp comparison though, but of course Pulp will do better hehe 



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Unfinished vocals, ha...that's just Barney's style/lack of singing ability.

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Unfinished vocals, ha...that's just Barney's style/lack of singing ability.

 

Well i dont know new order at all, so "unfinished" to me biggrin It's pretty surprising at first i gotta say



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I wonder when the next review will hit. The monthly music mags tend to get in early. Online music websites, media outlets & newspapers generally publish their reviews on the week of release.

Uncut usually publish a couple of weeks after Mojo (I assume so as not to get in each other's way too much considering they must have a large cross-over in customers).

Record Collector...not sure when that goes to print.

Classic Pop will probably cover 'More' but I think they publish less than monthly now.

Are there any other music magazines left? What about France's titan - Les Inrockuptibles? I expect a 10 out 10 for old time's sake.

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The NME still exists in some strange form doesn't it. But does it still carry reviews?

There's also the free ones like Crack. Don't think DIY does a print edition anymore but I might be wrong?

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Yeah, NME.com has album reviews (there are certain bands to whom they're always nice. Pulp is one of them). Pitchfork will have their anal scoring system, to the nearest tenth ie 7.3 out of 10 and lots of zine-type sites and blogs (Brooklyn Vegan, God Is In The TV) will cover it. The Quietus too, they have some great writers who write meaty articles.

There'll be a deluge over the next month.

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How do you decide that an an album is 7.3. I mean, why not 7.2 or 7.4

Stars i understand, half i understand, but 7.3. How about 7.333 ?

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in UNCUT July issue

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Sure but it is it out yet? Can't see it on Readly and the last issue came out on Apr 25th so it seems a bit early still.

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Irish music monthly Hot Press has Pulp on the cover of the new edition:

 

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June issue of Record Collector is out with double page spread review.



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Oh wow, that is a great review. This album is going to be both emotional and blow the bloody doors off, live. Thanks so much for sharing.

I've bought the e-mag of Hot Press which has a really good Jarvis interview too, just not sure if it's iffy to share so soon (they published something I wrote once!).

I think reviews are fine to snip and paste but maybe cover stories/full articles... I dunno, can't remember if anyone shared the Mojo interview but most of us bought it for the free CD anyway.

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Potentially most exciting thing in the Hot Press article... more Pulp after Pulp - More ?!

 

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Pulp doing a Further Complications next ? :D

 

there is 12 tracks then, but i'm pretty sure i will stick After You and cuckoo (Jarvis version) somewhere, just to try. Think they will fit



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Jarv was not born in wartime
He was not born in pain or poverty
He needs an addiction, he needs an affliction
To cultivate another Pulp LP

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The Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/pulp-more-album-review-jarvis-****er/

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Thanks. Paywalled though and archive.ph isn't liking it.

Also, why is a newspaper publishing a review 2 weeks in advance?

 

Edit, got it:

 

Jarvis ****er even manages to make farmers markets sexy on Pulps new album More

Pulps first album in 24 years is full of the lust and laughter that first made Jarvis ****er the witty, charismatic frontman of Britpop
    
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Pulp's new album More is full of tales of ****er's upper middle-class life
Pulps new album More is full of tales of ****ers upper middle-class life
Poppie Platt
20 May 2025 4:35pm BST
As Liam and Noel Gallagher prepare to rake in millions from this summers much-fêted Oasis reunion shows, Manchesters favourite warring brothers risk being overshadowed by one of the Nineties most beloved other bands. Back with their first album in almost 24 years, Pulp prove once again that their title of Britpops wittiest and most intelligent chroniclers of everyday life (and sex) is in no danger of being snatched away.
Appropriately titled More, the album was written in the aftermath of Pulps own triumphant run of reunion shows beginning in 2023 (its also their first since the death of bassist Steve Mackey, that same year). Theres always a worry when a band as influential and brilliant as Pulp decides to release new music: will it be any good? Will the new songs have everyone heading off to the bar en masse? One only has to remember the Stone Roses tedious 2016 effort, Beautiful Thing, to be filled with dread.
 
But More is a supremely confident record, filled with lust, laughter and passion that hark back to Pulps glory days. Spike Island  itself inspired by the Roses famous 1990 gig in Widnes is a sunny slice of pure pop that manages to sound like quintessential Jarvis ****er and co. without veering into nostalgic karaoke.
Thats not to say that loyal Pulp fans shouldnt be prepared to feel challenged by some of the tracks the youthful exuberance of 1994s His n Hers, and the anthemic power of Different Class, which followed a year later, has been replaced with tales of 61-year-old ****ers upper middle-class reality. Luckily, despite many of the songs focusing on farmers markets or conversations with friends about commute times, his irrepressible horniness (think of sex-fuelled classics like Acrylic Afternoons or Babies) is still present.
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And so you move from Camden / Out to Hackney / And you stress about wrinkles / Instead of acne, he sings on Grown Ups, a thudding, synth-heavy reflection on ageing, while Farmers Market is ****er at his most ****er: a bit pretentious, a bit strange, but nonetheless intoxicating. Elegiac strings give way to his earnest vocals as he regales us with the tale of an intense love affair. You can readily picture massive crowds singing back the soaring bridge We thought that we were just joking / Trying dreams on for size / We never realised / Wed be stuck with them, for the rest of our natural lives just as loudly as they would that famous refrain in Sorted for Es and Wizz.
 
Its the slower tracks that take slightly longer to get on board with, from the ode to Steel City on Hymn of the North to melodic closer A Sunset (co-written with Richard Hawley), the latter of which wouldnt sound out of place on a church choirs Sunday setlist. In comparison, the stompers will have the biggest impact Spike Island, already making waves on radio, and the superbly funky Got to Have Love.
Perhaps its because they were never really Britpop, having started out too early, but Pulp is still the best thing to have come out of the era. Not as boisterous as Oasis, never as smug as Blur or Suede, their music remains an open window to everyday British life. Because whats more British than self-deprecation and a penchant for farmers markets?
More is released on June 6


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Frisko2000 wrote:

The Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/pulp-more-album-review-jarvis-****er/

Use this link - a gift from me to all of you smile

Jarvis ****er even manages to make farmers markets sexy on Pulps new album More
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/371d6a9fd4e1ed4f



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