Indie icons Pulp have announced a new album, More, and shared their first single in almost 24 years, called Spike Island.
Speaking on BBC 6 Music, frontman Jarvis Cocker said the band had been tempted back into the studio by the overwhelming response to their 2023 reunion tour.
“We did play one new song towards the end of the tour, and nobody threw things at us, or left to go to the bar,” he said. “So we just thought we’d carry on and see what we could conjure up.”
The Sheffield band were one of the biggest acts of the 1990s Britpop era – although their music never quite fit into the backward-looking musical revisionism of that movement – with songs like Babies, Disco 2000 and Common People.

Oscar-winning actress and Avengers star Scarlett Johansson is featuring twice at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, both in front of and behind the camera.
She will appear in Wes Anderson’s new project, The Phoenician Scheme, alongside Benicio Del Toro and Tom Hanks and off-screen in her first directorial project.
Her new film, Eleanor the Great, has also been revealed as part of the line-up and follows an elderly woman as she copes with the death of her best friend.
Johansson’s starring role comes as organisers of the film festival have said that they are committed to showcasing more work from female filmmakers.