Pros: We Love Life represents the The new serious fronteer of POP
Cons: The album never seems to take off
The Bottom Line: No more twisted between the research of an astonishing arrangement of sounds and breathtaking
lyric sceneries,
We Love Life represents the culmination of PULP's excellent Pop career.
Beginning with a dash of introspective, pretentious and introvert albums
(It, Freaks, Separations), delivering the explosion of their pure
Pop soul on His'n'Hers and the brilliant Different Class,
passing through sofisticated, pompous and dark-decadent expressionism of This is Hardcore,
'Jarvis Cocker and his guys' have recently bloomed into their ripening opera: We Love Life.
This 12 songs collection is a clear demonstration of the great pop music
writing and playing ability of the band from Sheffield: a simply outlined instrumental carpet
and the direct words of Cockers
perfectly capture a mood of consciousness about their new vision of life.
No more twisted between the research of an astonishing arrangement of sounds and breathtaking
lyric sceneries, which absolutely made their effect and mean in the past years,
We Love Life represents the culmination of PULP's excellent Pop career: caught, as usual,
between their 'sex painted' souls (always recalled by Cocker's wry and marvellous lyrics)
and the agening process of their music sensibility.
The Album starts with Weeds, a modern and for more sensitive and careful listener
version of Mis-shapes, that pounds on the Jarvis frequent anguish about the British classes
differentiations.
Then Jarvis starts singing his way....
With The Night That Minnie Timperly Died, that will likely become a single
and whose subject is clearly disclosed by the title,
Cocker begins his vocal trills that make PULP music so different and weird:
Oh, Minnie I can feel the pain. Oh, Minnie I can feel the pain, pain, pain, pain.
...And the Album unfolds hits core with The Trees, Wickerman, I Love Life,
Birds In Your Garden, Bob Lind and Bad Cover Version:
the pieces that will probably mostly remain in the fans minds.
In none of these songs PULP seem to be aggressive against the listener, with a new way to
face the musical and Lyrics contents: a softener one, a simplier one and more communicative
one. With Jarvis hanging onto his vocal ability to share with everyone who's
listening his new maturity, his new personal redemption.
Roadkill and Sunrise close the album, a kind of sweet and fair closing scenery to the ones
who saw the highlights minutes before.
Maybe the album never take off, but once you've listened you've acquired
the new PULP sensation: new ways, new reasons to Love Life...wiping away the
'hollow feeling' of past times.
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