Jarvis Cocker Has Further Complications

For his second solo album, former Pulp frontman and trenchant Britpop wit Jarvis Cocker has grown a beard and cranked up the midlife- crisis rock. Now 45, the avuncular intellectual of the mid-'90s scene that also spawned Oasis and Blur has turned to a producer of that era - Steve Albini, of Nirvana and Pixies renown - to give Further Complications a rugged, at times raucous, full-band, live-in-the-studio feel.