Mojo 2025

Pulp confirms ‘Forty Odd Years’ compilation album will release alongside new studio album ‘More’.Pulp has confirmed the Forty Odd Years compilation album will be released alongside their upcoming eighth studio album, More. The Forty Odd Years compilation will be featured as a freebie in the June 2025 MOJO Magazine edition. A post to Pulp‘s Instagram confirmed the compilation would release later this year, with the covermount CD featuring a live version of deep cut Sheffield: Sex City, as well a series of BBC Session recordings.

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