"Love Will Destroy Us in the End" is a single by

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band Hefner. It was released by

Too Pure Too Pure Records was a London-based independent record label formed in 1990 by Richard Roberts and Paul Cox. The label gained prominence after the release of PJ Harvey's debut studio album ''Dry (album), Dry'' in 1992, and subsequently found f ...

in 1998, and is the first proper single from their album '' Breaking God's Heart''.
The b-side "

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

's Letter to

Vic Chesnutt James Victor Chesnutt (November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. His first album, Little (album), ''Little'', was released in 1990. His commercial breakthrough came in 1996 with the rele ...

" was not written by typical Hefner songwriter

Darren Hayman Darren Hayman (born 1 December 1970) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the writer, lead singer, and guitarist in Hefner. Since Hefner disbanded in 2002, Hayman has embarked on a prolific solo career releasing ...

, but, according to Hayman, a "guy called Mathew who I no longer keep contact with. He was in this band called the New Bad Things who are most famous for a song called 'I suck' which ohnPeel played every night for about four years."

Track listing

The single was released on

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and a 7"

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. The compact disc version contains all four tracks, while the 7" only contains the first two. # "Love Will Destroy Us in the End" # "Destroyed Cowboy Falls" # "Blind Girl with Halo" # "Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt"

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20120415034301/http://www.hefnet.com/love%20will.htm Hefner (band) songs 1998 songs Too Pure singles {{1990s-UK-single-stub