Pulp - This Is Hardcore"This is the sound of someone losing the plot you're gonna like it, but not a lot." So says Jarvis Cocker on The Fear, the opening track on This Is Hardcore, the ambitious follow up to Pulp's breakthroughDifferent Class, thereby providing his own review for the album. Cocker doesn't quite lose the plot onThis Is Hardcore, but the ominous, claustrophobic The Fear makes it clear that this is a different band, one that no longer has anthems like Common

For ‰Û÷Otherness

buried songs beneath warped aural gauze

‰۝ adds Gonzalez

I moved to NYC as a teenager to be a ‰Û÷rock star

Garnering comparisons to John Grant

No time for façade

this image seems a fitting mental picture

greased hair and a firm nod in the stylistic direction of Michael Jackson

pre-stoner rock tracks of Brown Acid: The First Trip

truly a breakthrough in the world of dance music

‰ÛÏSilent Inuit‰۝ became a northern hit for Thrasher

but Delt can transport what would normally be a dark-n-druggy blanket into a much more optimistic and friendly listening experience