Pulp have digitally released their new EP featuring two new songs and a Johnny Cash cover.
The EP was previously only able to purchase as a 12″ vinyl exclusive via Rough Trade, but has now been made available on streaming platforms for everyone to listen to.
It contains two new songs called ‘Marrying For Love’ and ‘Cold Call On The Hotline’. The former is a lounge-y love song, while the latter features a self-deprecating narrator desperately waiting for an answer on a sex hotline: “I’ve heard of phone sex, but phone impotence, that’s a new one on me“.
The EP also contains Pulp’s sultry cover of Johnny Cash’s ‘The Man Comes Around’. The song features in a pivotal moment of ITV drama series The Hack, which is based on the 2011 phone hacking scandal that led to The News of the World closing.
Take a listen to ‘The Man Comes Around’ EP below:
The two new songs on the EP come from the recording sessions of ‘More’, which was the Britpop band’s first new album in 24 years.
NME hailed the record in a four-star review, writing: “‘More’ is everything you’d want a Pulp album to be, made richer from some lived experience. Just as Blur did with ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ and Suede have managed on their immaculate run of post-reunion albums, Pulp have retained their original spirit and flair into a statement of middle age without feeling any less vital.”
Meanwhile, we spoke to frontman Jarvis Cocker around the release of the album, with the Sheffield star opening up to us about the loss of beloved bassist Steve Mackey in 2023.
“It was a big blow to lose him,” Cocker told us. “On an obvious level, him passing away makes you consider your own mortality and what you want to do with your life. That was a bit of a spur to create things because we were still in a position where we could do that.”
The band will be embarking on a series of UK and European shows this year, with their only major UK headline concert to take place in Manchester in August. Self Esteem will perform as support act at the huge show at Wythenshawe Park – tickets are on sale here.
The band will also top the bill at End Of The Road 2026 and headline Mad Cool Festival in Madrid.
Elsewhere, Cocker recently teased that Pulp “might write some more songs” together. The update came after his bandmates Nick Banks and Candida Doyle told NME that they were “not itching” to make another new album. “An EP, maybe, or a single,” Doyle added.
When pressed by NME on a proper follow-up to ‘More’, Cocker replied: “Maybe. We tried to not have a concept for this record or think, ‘This is it, this is our last gas’. I used to think that a lot.
“I had this weird thing that when an album was mixed and finished where I’d think, ‘Oh, I can die now and it would be OK’. That’s a terrible way to think about your life, really. I didn’t feel that with this record.”
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