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"For Love" is a song by English band Lush from their second studio album Spooky. Released as an EP in 1991 as the second single from the album, it became the band's first Top 40 single in their home country and also reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Development and composition
Lush frontwoman Miki Berenyi, who wrote the song, has described it as "quite complicated," having taken "a lot of trial and error and a lot of building it up and changing it" to complete. She considers it to be the first good song she wrote. Featuring a "hooky" bassline and "sing-songy vocal melody", the shoegaze track has also been referred to as a pop song by fellow Lush member Emma Anderson due to its accessibility.

Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, critic Andy Kellman complimented the "lovely jangles and smart songwriting" of "For Love" in his review of Spooky, noting similarities between the song and material by Australian band The Go-Betweens. Other retrospective reviewers also made positive remarks about the song; Pitchfork noted it as an "old favorite" in their review of Lush's Ciao! Best of Lush compilation and Ed Nash of The Line of Best Fit called it "gorgeous" in a review of the band's career-spanning Chorus box set.

Track listing

 * 1) "For Love" (Miki Berenyi)
 * 2) "Starlust" (Emma Anderson, Berenyi)
 * 3) "Outdoor Miner" (Graham Lewis, Colin Newman)
 * 4) "Astronaut" (Anderson)