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Can you ever recapture lightning in a bottle? Pulp's eighth album—the band's first in 24 years—makes a strong case for it. Though they split up in 2002, there have been more than a few reunion shows, and staying out of the spotlight, it seems, was never really an option. "I was born to perform/ It's a calling/ I еxist to do this/ Shouting and pointing," frontman Jar vis Cocker sings on "Spike Island" (while name-checking a Mott the Hoople album, no less). Packed with punchy disco bass and comet-streak guitar—not to mention Cocker's signature yelps and exaggerated sighs, meeting at some Venn diagram of sexy, world-weary and awkward—it draws inspiration from British legend: the Stone Roses' infamous outdoor 1990 gig of the same name. That concert's taken on mythical status over the years, but in reality, Pulp guitarist Mark Webber has admitted, "it didn't sound very good, it was windy and the vibe wasn't there."

WORDS FROM JARVIS ON “MORE” “This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for almost 24 years. How did that happen?

Pioneering Brit-pop band known both for its stylish sound and vocalist Jarvis Cocker's lyrical obsessions (sexual foibles, working-class misfits). Collection includes: His 'N' Hers (1994); Different Class (1995); This Is Hardcore (1998); We Love Life (2001).

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Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Japanese animation; and the fragmented story-telling structures of such experimental classics as Citizen Kane, Rashomon, and La jetée. The Oscar-winning script by Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, in the role that single-handedly reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B-movie; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic.

Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.