20 YEARS AGO: Pulp - Seductive Barry

Continuing our look at tracks from 1998's best albums, here's a pick from Pulp's post-Britpop hangover soundtrack 'This Is Hardcore'. The dark, moody and lustful 'Seductive Barry' provided the LP with a fine centrepiece, opening out into lush instrumentation as it progresses. At times bringing to mind a sexually-charged Joy Division.

'This Is Hardcore' took up the role of officially closing the curtains on the optimism of the 90s. Pulp would release their next LP 'We Love Life' a few years later before splitting. A comeback tour a decade later would produce no new songs or albums, aside from a newly recorded version of the old demo 'After You'. The group haven't performed since, but Jarvis Cocker has been involved in a number of musical projects, including his latest, which is known as JARV.