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We Love Life

We Love Life
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Studio album by Pulp
Released 22 October 2001
Recorded 2001
Genre Alternative rock
Length 53:55
Label Polygram, Island
Producer Scott Walker
Pulp chronology
Freshly Squeezed... the Early Years
(1998)
We Love Life
(2001)
Hits
(2002)
Singles from We Love Life
  1. "Sunrise" / "The Trees"
    Released: 8 October 2001
  2. "Bad Cover Version"
    Released: 15 April 2002
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 84/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
Blender 4/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly B
The Guardian 5/5 stars
NME 7/10
Pitchfork Media 8.2/10
Q 4/5 stars
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars
Spin 9/10
Uncut 5/5 stars

We Love Life is the seventh and final studio album by Pulp, released in the UK on 22 October 2001. It reached number 6 in the UK album charts, with a total chart stay of only three weeks.

It is notable for being produced by Scott Walker, whose own album 'Til the Band Comes In is mocked in the lyrics of the song "Bad Cover Version". Cocker claims the lyric was written long before Walker became involved in the album's production.

The minimal cover art (by Peter Saville) shows a set of initial capitals held in the collection of St. Bride Printing Library in London. They were engraved in wood by or for Louis Pouchée around the 1820s.

Initial critical response to We Love Life was very positive. The album received an average score of 84 at Metacritic, based on 20 reviews. The music review online magazine Pitchfork Media placed We Love Life at number 194 on their list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s.

All songs written by Cocker, Banks, Doyle, Mackey, Webber, except where indicated.

Personnel adapted from album liner notes


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