Jarvis Cocker hopes Pulp won’t take another 24 years to make a new album.
The ‘Spike Island’ group released More, their first LP since 2001’s We Love Life, last week and though there are no plans set in stone for another record, the 61-year-old frontman suggested there won’t be such a lengthy gap next time around.
Asked if there will be another Pulp album in the future, Jarvis told NME: “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. On the sleeve inside it says, ‘This is the best that we can do’. That’s all you can do at any point of your life.
“Hopefully not in another 24 years, but maybe in a couple of years, there will be something else to say
The Common People hitmaker admitted he was worried he’d “scare off” his bandmates by proposing a new album because their previous efforts had taken such a long time to put together.
He said: “At the back of my mind, I thought that it could be good to do a record, but I didn’t want to scare everybody off by saying that because the last two Pulp albums took a very long time – mostly due to my prevarication.
“I didn’t want everybody to get stressed out thinking that they were going to lose two years of their lives to make a record. I decided to be grown up and write the words first and things like that, which sped the whole process up a bit.
“It was kind of like going back to the early days of being in the band when we didn’t have a record deal or anything like that. There was no reason to make this album in that there was nobody asking us to, but we just thought, ‘We’ve got some songs here that are good, so why don’t we record them?’”