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More (Pulp album)

More (stylised as More.) is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Pulp, released on 6 June 2025 on Rough Trade Records. Produced by James Ford, it is the band's first studio album in twenty-four years following We Love Life (2001) and is their first album since Freaks (1987) without bass guitarist Steve Mackey, who died in 2023. Mackey is credited as a co-writer on two songs.

The returning four core members of Pulp – vocalist Jarvis Cocker, keyboardist Candida Doyle, drummer Nick Banks and guitarist Mark Webber – were joined in the studio by touring members Andrew McKinney (bass guitar), Emma Smith (violin) and Adam Betts (various instruments), who had previously worked with Cocker on his solo project Jarv Is and its 2020 studio album, Beyond the Pale. Current Pulp touring violist Richard Jones also contributed to the recording process.

Released to widespread critical acclaim, the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, becoming the band's first number one album in over twenty-seven years, since the release of This Is Hardcore in 1998.

The cover by graphic designer Julian House is based on a photograph taken by Jarvis Cocker in the afternoon on 15 July 2024 near Kerlingarfjöll, Iceland whilst out for a walk on holiday with his son, Albert. The original picture was modified to show cardboard cutouts of band members from the cover of Pulp's Different Class (1995).

The lead single, "Spike Island", was released on 10 April 2025, accompanied with a music video. It reached number 26 on the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart the following June, marking the first time that a Pulp song had appeared on any radio airplay chart in the United States. The song received a 7" vinyl release with non-album B-side "Open Strings" on 23 May 2025 and subsequently topped the UK Physical Singles chart.

The second single, "Got to Have Love", was released on 22 May 2025 with a music video that included footage of dancers from the Tony Palmer documentary The Wigan Casino (1977).

Following the release of More in June, Pulp revealed the third single, "Tina", on 21 July 2025. Like the previous singles, the song was accompanied by a music video by Julia Schimautz of DTAN Studio, Berlin, with lyrics animated by Gaussian Studio.

To promote the album, the band embarked on the Here Comes More Tour, their most extensive tour since the 1990s. Like with the album, the tour received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

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