Pulp Confirms Life Is, Like, Not Terrible And Junk

jharv | October 3, 2007 12:05 pm
From today’s “it’s hardly new, but I kinda needed to post it” files: There’s not a Pulp record from His ‘N Hers onward that you shouldn’t have near your nightstand for when one of those late-night, blackly sardonic moods hits, but the way-way-way (way) underrated We Love Life might be my favorite in the final tally, moving past the jaundiced/wounded portraits of Different Class or the nihilist navel-gazing of This Is Hardcore, as Jarvis Cocker proves that it’s okay to A.) be emo as fuck about romance/heartbreak and B.) hate (or at least be deeply suspicious of) humanity if C.) you have a humanist heart o’ gold beating under your snappy tailored suits and D.) don’t let your snark slip too much in favor of bitterness or mawkishness. (It’s kind of a complex equation to juggle. Even for a British guy.) Sadly YouTube doesn’t have the album’s title track–No. 1 life-affirming song of this decade, which I’ve been playing the hell out of lately–so here’s “The Trees,” a great single (if not a particularly superb video) in the grand, old-school mixtape tradition of letting a shamefully charismatic man talk about love with a wit that you’re not able to muster yourself.

Pulp – “The Trees” [YouTube]

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