Further Complications
Former Pulp frontman's Steve Albini-produced album is a jutting, joking, hard-riffing jolt filled with raw self-deprecation and some unintended problems.
A sharp-tongued obsessive as alert to his own failings as to the inequities of the world, Jarvis Cocker spares no one. With Further Complications, his second solo album following Pulp’s dissolution, he directs most of his dark wit back at himself. “This is no mouthwatering proposition,” he tells a prospective lover on…
<p>This is a record that's more intriguing than entertaining, says <strong>Craig McLean</strong></p>
The album is thick with a humid sense of decaying sexuality, a desperate voraciousness made even grimier by the gritty production.
Further Complications is the second proper solo record from Jarvis Cocker since disbanding his long-time outfit Pulp around 2002, and it ranks among the...
<p>Further Complications is best when the music quietens, allowing the singer's glorious one-liners to be savoured, writes <strong>Dave Simpson</strong></p>