Dig if you will a picture: you're hanging out with a couple of friends in your backyard, tossing back a few beers, maybe barbecuing, having a time, playing some music, etc. When all of a sudden, a dodo bird wanders out from the bushes. Previously declared extinct, the last surviving dodo shows up in the middle of your shindig. What do you do? You'd probably turn down the music, put down the can of whatever you're holding and just hold your breath and see what it decides to do, right?
That's sort of how I feel about Pulp's ongoing reunion—you don't want to bother, pester or even look at it too long, lest it decide to just piss off back into the brush again. So it's with very, very hushed tones that I even reference the fact that Jarvis Cocker & Co. haven't recorded a new album since 2001's Scott Walker-produced We Love Life. Would it be wrong to ask Jarvis when we can expect a proper follow-up? Maybe, but it didn't stop our friends at NME from doing just that.
"I don't know about that," says a clearly torn Jarvis in their new issue. "I mean, I've enjoyed doing these shows because the idea was, could we manage to do it again, to make it feel like it was worth doing and to make it sound right? And I think we managed to do that."
He adds:
"I suppose once you've done that, the next thing is; would you make some new music? I've enjoyed the fact that we haven't been doing any new stuff, because I feel that's kept it quite simple. It's hard one. We haven't been in the studio or anything. I don't know what will happen in the future."
Extinct bird, folks. Don't make too much noise, you'll scare it.
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