Punctuate the glammy pop of the singles 'Lipgloss,' 'Babies,' and 'Do Goth twaddle in the mid-'80s pay off on the tense, dramatic epics that The years etching out Joy Division-inspired Pathos, passion, or wit, and his band - driven by the rock-solidДrummer Nick Banks and bassist Steve Mackey, along with the arty stylings of keyboardist Candida Doyle and violinist/guitarist Russell Senior - gives this muscle and blood beneath its stylish exterior. Time.' On earlier Pulp albums he explored similar stories of alienation, but on His 'n' HersД®verything clicks: his lyrics are scalpel sharp, whether he's essaying CockerДoesn't tell tales of conquests: he tells tales of sexual obsession andД«etrayal, where the seemingly nostalgic question 'Do You Remember theДЇirst Time?' is answered with the reply, 'I can't remember a worst Music, no matter how the album glistens on its waves of cold synths andД®choed guitars, no matter how much sex drives the music here. Here, on the fuzz guitars that power the chorus of 'Lipgloss,' or theДramatic release at the climax of 'Babies' - this isn't light, fizzy As joyous as certainД®lements of the music are - and there isn't just joy but transcendence

That hangs over this album like a talisman. Not just as a pop band that will rock it establishes an air of menace Geek stance of Cocker, this isn't music that aims for the head: its target is the gut and groin, and His 'n' Hers has an immediacy that's apparent as soon as 'Joyriders' kicks the album into gear with its crashing guitars. The tense 'Acrylic Afternoons,' or the closing 'David's Last Summer' -ДЄnd their studied detachment, it might easy to over-intellectualize theД«and, particularly in these early days before they reached stardom, butДЇor all of the chilliness of the old analog keyboards and the conscious Predilection for crawling mood pieces - such effective set pieces as Seeming paradox giving the music weight instead of weighing it down. Intellectual, cheap yet sophisticated, retro yet modern - with each It was a sound that perfectly fit the subjectДЄt hand: it was filled with contradictions - it was sensual yet Had the immediacy (and hooks) of pop balanced by an artful obsession Pieced together from old glam and post-punk records, assembled in so it This was a sound that was carefully thought out, Lyrical obsessions and, in turn, the album where the world at largeД«ecame acquainted with their glassy, tightly wound synth pop and lead Is their de facto debut: the album that established their musical and Pulp had been kicking around since 1981, but for all intents and purposes, their 1994 major-label debut, His 'n' Hers AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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