Free MP3: Jarvis Cocker—“Angela”

As the leader of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker rose to the top of the Brit-pop heap after battling Blur and Oasis through the ’90s British invasion redux. In recent years, Pulp has been put on the shelf and the lanky singer with the acid tongue has ventured out on his own.

On the lead track from his latest album Further Complications,  Cocker’s eponymous ode to Angela (”She’s nearly 23/ making $4.15 an hour”) has less in common with Pulp’s ’90s Brit-pop showdown and more to do with the fuzzy pub-rock of a hungry young Elvis Costello. It’s not as cringe-inducingly clever as the Pulp classic “Common People,” but what is? Continue reading »