“We’ve not been here for a very long time,” Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker told fans Wednesday night, Sept. 17. at Detroit’s Masonic Temple Auditorium — the British band’s first visit to the metro area since a May 1996 performance at Saint Andrew’s Hall.

“We’ve got a lot to talk about,” the frontman continued, “a lot of catch-up to do.”

Cocker and company did just that over the course of its two-hour-plus concert on Wednesday, a masterfully performed and staged exposition that transcended mere nostalgia thanks to the presence of songs from a new album, “More,” which came out in June. Nine members strong, the band came prepared to deliver all of the tightly structured dynamics of the night’s 20, mostly uptempo songs, with multiple guitars, keyboards and, at times, violins delivering every nuance th

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