Articles tagged "jarvis cocker"

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Jarvis Cocker - “Further Complications” (video)

by Tyler Gould

[6.Nov.09] :. Here’s a video for the title track from Cocker’s Further Complications, slinky stage presence and paper airplane transitions...

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Sound Affects

Funny How It All Falls Away: Pulp at Their Most Life-Affirming on ‘This Is Hardcore’

by Sean McCarthy

[13.Oct.09] :. On its release, Pulp's This Is Hardcore was derided as a commercial and artistic disappointment. Not so ten years later. Was the music ahead of its time, or did critics just have to reach their 30s to appreciate it?

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Jarvis Cocker - “Angela” (video)

by C.L. Chafin

[15.May.09] :. PopMatters’ C.L. Chafin on Further Complications: “Angela”, the first track released to the blogosphere (i.e., its “lead single”), is a prime example of the...

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Music Review

Jarvis Cocker: Further Complications

by C.L. Chafin

[13.May.09] :. Jarvis Cocker turns it up to 11 for his best album this decade.

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Jarvis Cocker - “Angela” (MP3)

by Sarah Zupko

[20.Apr.09] :. Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker releases his latest album Further Complications on 19 May. “Angela” is the first MP3 available from the new album. It’s pretty rocky as in rock...

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Events Review

V Festival feat. Pixies, Beck, Nouvelle Vague, Gnarls Barkley, Jarvis Cocker, and Phoenix

by Nick Gunn

[20.Apr.07] :. PopMatters' Nick Gunn takes on the crowds and craziness, to find out what happens when Virgin's V Festival pops up down under.

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Jarvis Cocker squeezes out of Pulp and churns out a solo album

by Jim Farber [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[10.Apr.07] :. Jarvis Cocker, writer of snarky songs about sexual starvation, self-annihilation, existential drift and general human folly, did two things he never thought he’d do in the last few...

 

Air: Pocket Symphony

by Zeth Lundy

[5.Mar.07] :. Fourth full-length from the French duo of Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin maintains a modernist style while seriously decreasing the stakes.

 

Jarvis Cocker: Jarvis

by Michael Lomas

[21.Nov.06] :. Jarvis is a deliciously dark, funny and acidic record that stands up to anything from Pulp's heyday. It's good to have him back.

 
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Music Review

Pulp: Different Class

by Adrien Begrand

[20.May.04] :. Along with Blur’s Parklife, it remains the high point of the Britpop era; music, lyrics, production, artwork, it’s as perfect as it gets, one that I, personally, will never, ever tire of hearing.

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Pulp: Hits

by Devon Powers

[5.Sep.03] :. Pulp have a greatest hits record, and it’s about goddamned time. The enigmatic group, fronted by the inimitable Jarvis Cocker, are by far the oldest and wisest of the Britpop behemoths.

 

Pulp: Hits

by Adrien Begrand

[13.Jan.03] :. Few British bands have come close to matching the remarkable string of excellent albums that Pulp has put together over the past 10 years.