Pulp had to follow up to their era-defining record, Different Class, and Cocker wrote the 1998 album This Is Hardcore, which, says Savidge, “is basically Jarvis’s way of equating fame with har ...

We did it!” the band said in a statement. Pulp’s last release was the 2001 album We Love Life, released by Island Records, though the band has toured together in the intervening years.