“If you thought last Fall was good, wait for this one!” says Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. “You deserve more—and we’ve got More. More than you could imagine…….”
More is fast becoming Jarvis Cocker’s favourite word. After a 24-year silence on the album front, Pulp return with a new album, More, and a string of North American dates that cut cleanly through September.
Cut in a mere three weeks at London’s Orbb Studio last November with producer James Ford, More moves with a rare immediacy…Jarvis Cocker himself noting it’s the quickest Pulp album ever laid down. Spike Island, which made its debut during Pulp’s tour in 2024, heralds a promising glimpse: as with most of Pulp’s songs, the poetic lyrics trace a personal reckoning: an artist stepping back from self-destruction and rediscovering purpose not through reason, but raw instinct. Wrestling with fate, regret, and creative compulsion, it pivots from chaos toward clarity.
Spike Island – part myth, part memory – echoes the infamous 1990 Stone Roses gathering, where euphoria met ego on a Cheshire floodplain. Jason Buckle was in the thick of it, but Jarvis Cocker caught the aftershocks secondhand, piecing the legend together through cigarette smoke and secondhand tales. Chief among them: the overzealous DJ endlessly howling, “Spike Island, come alive!” like a prophet shouting into a rave-shaped void.
To whet your whistle and get in the mood, blare Spike Island. Loudly.
Pulp’s “More” tour begins with a jolt in Atlanta on 4 September. It snakes through key cities: Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Toronto, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Denver, before closing with a climactic two-night co-headline at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl alongside LCD Soundsystem.
It is a brief blitz rather than a drawn-out affair, but the impact is set to be seismic: Jarvis Cocker and company remain cultural shape-shifters, bringing More to life with the same spiky elegance and deadpan drama that once pinned pop to the margins and made it strange again.
With additional UK and Ireland arena appearances lined up, this stateside run feels like a tightly wound, impeccably timed detour; less a reunion, more a reminder that pop, at its best, still cuts deep.
Listen to Spike Island below and pre-order More here.
More by Pulp An artist ticket pre-sale is set for Wednesday, April 23rd at 10:00 a.m. local time. A Live Nation ticket follows on Thursday, April 24th, at 10:00 a.m. local time here. Public sales commence Friday, April 25th.
04 September – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
06 September – Washington, D.C. – The Anthem
09 September – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia Presented by Highmark
11 September – Queens, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
13 September – Boston, MA – The Stage at Suffolk Downs
16 September – Toronto, Ontario – Budweiser Stage
17 September – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple
20 September – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
22 September – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
25 September – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl *
26 September – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl *
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