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

United Kingdom

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 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band Hefner

Hefner (band)

Hefner were a British indie rock and "urban folk" band formed in east London in 1995. They were active from about 1996 until 2002; since then they have played together only once, for a tribute to the DJ John Peel, who was a strong supporter of theirs....

. It was released by Too Pure

Too Pure

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 in 1998, and is the first proper single from their album Breaking God's Heart

Breaking God's Heart

Breaking God's Heart is the debut full-length album by British indie rock band Hefner. The album was originally released by Too Pure in 1998, and a reissue was released by Darren Hayman, the band's lead singer, in September 2007.-Track listing:...

.

The b-side "Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt

Vic Chesnutt

James Victor "Vic" Chesnutt was an American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. His first album, Little, was released in 1990, but his breakthrough to commercial success didn't come until 1996 with the release of Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation, a tribute album of mainstream artists...

" was not written by typical Hefner songwriter Darren Hayman

Darren Hayman

Darren Russell Hayman is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist in Hefner...

, 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

New Bad Things

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 who are most famous for a song called 'I suck' which [John] Peel

John Peel

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 played every night for about four years."

Tracklisting

The single was released on compact disc

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 and a 7" vinyl record. The compact disc version contains all four tracks, while the 7" only contains the first two.

1. "Love Will Destroy Us in the End"
2. "Destroyed Cowboy Falls"
3. "Blind Girl with Halo"
4. "Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt"