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We Love Life
Rock · 2001 · 11 tracks

We Love Life

Pulp

A lush, orchestral pivot toward the natural world. Scott Walker's production transforms Jarvis Cocker's urban wit into a grand, pastoral meditation on survival.

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It's like a David Attenborough documentary if it was narrated by a witty, slightly hungover poet.

A sophisticated and hard-won optimism that finds beauty in the resilience of the natural world.

We Love Life · vs · Pulp
Forest+4.0σ

Forest saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
Weeds
3:42
02
Weeds II (The Origin of the Species)
4:00
03
The Night That Minnie Timperley Died
4:41
04
The Trees
4:50
05
Wickerman
8:19
06
I Love Life
5:32
07
The Birds in Your Garden
4:13
08
Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)
4:15
09
Bad Cover Version
4:19
10
Roadkill
4:16
11
Sunrise
5:53
Moments Worth Waiting For
The cinematic eight-minute sprawl of Wickerman where the music mimics the slow flow of a polluted river.
The explosive, sun-drenched climax of Sunrise that feels like a physical release of tension.
The way the bird song samples bleed into the lush melodic hooks of The Birds in Your Garden.
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