{"product_id":"belle-sebastian-the-life-pursuit","title":"Belle \u0026 Sebastian -  The Life Pursuit","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=50SGRsRCYzQfFfLP\u0026amp;list=OLAK5uy_nqrhdN3f-Mj09jX0FfmDa96tvorQnaz4g\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003eThe Life Pursuit is nothing short of a revelation. Produced by Tony Hoffer, this album feels both familiar and strange at the same time. There is a powerful aesthetic at the heart of The Life Pursuit that places it at some time in the early-to-middle seventies without ever specifically sounding like anything you can put your finger on. It is more muscular than previous Belle and Sebastian albums - and there is a gravitation towards a liver, beatier sound - but unlike any of their peers, it is impossible to reduce their influences to a few key sources.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eBelle and Sebastian pull in stuff from all over the place, so that Sly and the Family Stone \/ Funkadelic inflections (\"Song For Sunshine\") sits side by side with the classic bubblegum riffs and call-and-response vocals of \"White Collar Boy\" (another sure-fire stomping single); the \"Queen Bitch-era\" Bowie stylings of \"Sukie In The Graveyard\"; the glammy T-Rex of \"The Blues Are Still Blue\"; the prime-time miserablism of a Terry Hall (\"Mornington Crescent\") and the irrepressible rousing piano drive of \"The Price of a cup of Tea\". It also includes the impossibly perfect slice of Motown-pop in the name of lead single \"Funny Little Frog\".\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Matador","offers":[{"title":"2LP Edition","offer_id":45567699419180,"sku":"OLE 687-8","price":1309.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0388\/0461\/9308\/files\/img10655_belle-sebastian-the-life-pursuit.jpg?v=1779511357","url":"https:\/\/whitenoiserecords.org\/en-tw\/products\/belle-sebastian-the-life-pursuit","provider":"WHITE NOISE RECORDS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}