{"id":561847,"date":"2026-03-24T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561847\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:34:11","slug":"pulp-share-two-new-songs-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561847\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulp Share Two New Songs: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pulp are really doing the thing! Last year, the reunited Britpop greats released More<\/a>, their first album in 24 years. It fucking ruled. There’s been more music since, then, too. In November, Pulp shared their surprising cover of Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around<\/a>.” Last month, they dropped the excellent psych-rock protest song “Begging For Change<\/a>” on the HELP(2)<\/a> compilation. Now, their 12″ single for “The Man Comes Around” is out, and it’s got two new songs as B-sides.<\/p>\n

You should know better than to write off Pulp’s B-sides, since you have decades of evidence that a lot of great stuff never makes it onto their albums. “Marrying For Love,” one of Pulp’s new tracks, is a kind of deranged, percussive easy-listening thing, and Jarvis Cocker spends about half of it in spoken-word rant mode. It’s a love song, naturally. Here’s one great lyric: “Armageddon postponed, paradise regained, ten thousand saxophones take to the street. Can you imagine the racket? But I love it.” Here’s another one: “A new source of energy that doesn’t cost the earth: Erotic rebirth.”<\/p>\n

“Cold Call On The Hot Line,” the other new Pulp song, plays around in the same organ-centric Muzak playground. This time around, Jarvis Cocker talks about being stuck on hold and longing for phone sex. Great lyric: “Please help me become a well-rounded personality\/ Because you’re well-rounded, as far as I can see.” Check out both songs below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The single version of “The Man Comes Around” is out now on Rough Trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pulp are really doing the thing! Last year, the reunited Britpop greats released More, their first album in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-561847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}