Belle & Sebastian Life Pursuit (Digital Download Card) (2 Lp's)THE LIFE PURSUIT makes it appear as if Scottish twee popsters Belle & Sebastian have no intention of retreating to the fey, boy in the bubble acoustic vulnerability of their first few albums. The preceding DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS found uberproducer Trevor Horn giving the group a widescreen big pop sound, and while THE LIFE PURSUIT isn't quite as cinematic, it retains a fair amount of that agreeable pop gloss, nudging the tempos slightly, tightening

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Moller dons his Beat Pharmacy cap and pushes the mammoth bassline to near speaker-crushing levels to create a deeply hypnotic groove that is accentuated by waves of ferric pads and fractured percussion

The original release

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it's a considerable shift from Pure Heroine

giving us another glimpse of the world from her perspective--"oh how rude

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