It's like the Nineties never ended

First, Gene announce a 30th anniversary show (and, subsequently, a low-key warm-up show that seems to have sold out its pre-sale allocation in just two minutes*), then Pulp announce a new album. Called More, it will be released on the 6th of June, as far as I can tell. There's also a single, Spike Island, which sounds like this:

Apparently Jarvis used AI to create that video, specifically to animate and insert the "cardboard cut-out" figures that appear on the cover of Different Class into modern footage. As one of the captions points out, Jarv needs to get better with his AI prompts - I particularly "enjoyed" the four-armed bride in the closing scene.

Anyway, no AI was involved in making the track, at least. It is immediately recognisably Pulp, right down to a short spoken middle eight, and I think it might be a grower, if not a track to trouble the Champions League places of the Pulp Premier League.

Honestly, it's like the Nineties never ... etc.

* Please contact me in the unlikely event that you have a Gene warm-up gig ticket going spare... thanks.