During Britpop’s ’90s heyday, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker served as the movement’s arch social conscience—and that quality has carried over to his collaborations outside the band, like his cameo as a bitter ex on Lush’s “Ciao!” His solo endeavors are just as clever and cutting—cue up the NSFW political critique “Running the World” or the hapless character sketch “Must I Evolve?” from his prog-glam project JARV IS… His catalog offers even more diverse musical moods: delicate French mod-pop, ’70s glam torch songs, keyboard-heavy electronic excursions, and, on the 2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox movie theme, quirky campfire folk.