Amid the recent spate of revivals of British pop and rock music from the 1990s, including Blur’s 2023 album The Ballad of Darren and Oasis’s promised, or threatened, visit to North America’s stadia this summer, the return of the Sheffield act Pulp is the most unexpected and, therefore, the most welcome.

When Jarvis Cocker’s troupe first came to prominence in their native Great Britain in the mid-’90s with His ‘n’ Hers and Different Class, they were offering something conspicuously different from their peers. They boasted both an eclectic selection of musical influences, a mélange of John Barry, Serge Gainsbourg, Roxy Music, and David Bowie, and also featured the most inimitable frontman around.