New Song On Sunday

 

When a band crawls out of their holes again after 24 years, the first thing you think is that they can probably use the money to rest on their laurels. That's what I thought when I heard that Pulp were releasing a new album. 

Spike Island is the name of Pulp's new sign of life. The song is named after an Irish island in the Bay of Cork. However, the song is not about a historical event. In 1990, The Stone Roses played a gig there that would go down in British music history. Back then, 27,000 people gathered to experience the quartet from Manchester on little Spike Island. Jarvis Cocker was not among this huge crowd, but he can still imagine the spectacle.

Jarvis Cocker has never been the great singer and still isn't, but the sound he still manages to produce is a seamless continuation of his last releases. In its best moments, the song is even reminiscent of David Bowie, which is meant in a positive way. In a comment on the video, it was written that 'it's like hugging someone you haven't seen for a long time and it still smells the same and good'. There's nothing more to add to that.