Pulp – Freaks

Pulp’s 1987 album Freaks is being reissued as part of the Fire Embers series with a special 2 LP release. Packed with singles and b-sides from the Freaks era the album documents how Pulp had changed significantly since their debut It. By this time every member bar Jarvis had moved on but the addition of Russell Senior proved to be a pivotal turning point for the band. No longer did Pulp sound pastoral, easy-natured; now they were darkly romantic, brooding, noisy and a little bit Gothic. Pulp were out-of-tune with the times: but the times didn’t satisfy Pulp.