Pitchfork

Jarvis Cocker, charmingly flamboyant frontman of 90s Britpop darlings Pulp, is making a gradual return to the spotlight. First it was a duet with Nancy Sinatra, then the one with Jonny Greenwood for that Harry Potter thing ("This Is the Night"-- how terribly romantic!), followed by that complication The Trip he put together with Pulp bassist Steve Mackey (nee Stephen Patrick Mackey, not to be confused with a certain S.P. Morrissey).

But the true sign of a public return: He's popping up in the UK tabloids again-- in Q with Scott Walker, in NME vs Peter Robinson, etc. And he's even talking up the release of a new album later in the year. To be titled Warrior on the Edge Time, the record is supposed to have been produced by old college pals Sam Lockwood and John Watson, and, if all goes to plan, it should feature a brand new song titled "Running the World", which he's just posted to his MySpace.

Originally given the longer title "The Cunts Are Still Running the World", it's a pleasantly hateful little tune with lots of swears that hints at Cocker reinventing himself as a lovably cantankerous old codger. (He is now nearly 43, after all.) But what about his new prepubescent fanbase? Could he even be singing about Dumbledore??! Jarvis, this is no way to secure a long-term voicing career with Pixar.