“Spike Island” by Pulp

"Spike Island" broke 12 years without new Pulp music when Rough Trade released it in 2025, the opening shot for More, the band's first album in 24 years. James Ford produced, Animesh Raval mixed, and the credits sprawl: Jarvis Cocker singing and playing slide guitar, Candida Doyle on Farfisa, Mark Webber on guitar, Nick Banks on drums next to Adam Betts's drum machine, Andrew McKinney on bass, Jason Buckle on electronics, and a string section of violins, viola and cello. Cocker wrote the words; the music is credited to eight of them.

Cocker made the video with a text-to-video model, trying to animate the photographs from 1995's Different Class and then building the clip from whatever the machine hallucinated. Most critics hailed a triumphant return, and a 7-inch paired the song with a bonus track, "Open Strings".

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