Pulp - More.

Blue Sky Thinking Vinyl "This time I'll get it right," Jarvis Cocker sings on More, an album that appeared nearly a quarter-century after the band's presumed swan song We Love Life. Though that album's brooding acoustic panoramas were gripping, as a final statement they were anticlimactic. Cocker and company give fans more of what they want on More, but they choose what they revisit wisely. They'd already figured out on We Love Life that a reflective tone and slower pace was what suited them best post-Britpop, and that remains true as they contemplate the difference between aging and maturity. The band broached this topic on This Is Hardcore's "Help the Aged" (which Cocker wrote at the ripe old age of 33), but the passage of time has only imbued their thoughts with more humor and pathos. And while More's sound leans into influences that suggest the autumn of one's years -- We Love Life producer Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, even Frank Sinatra -- its songs were road-tested on Pulp's e