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More from Pulp should be greeted as the arrival of the unexpected gift, an album that arguably no fan of the Brit-Pop gatecrashes expected after such an absence from the charts and the studio. To hear the return of Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Mark Webber, and Jarvis Cocker in the iconic aural pose of poetry driven music is to feel once again the wonderful interaction of angst and tormented memories of growing up, of facing a future that seemed reserved for someone else.