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It’s weird enough to grow old with your rock idols — weirder still when their trademark youthful melancholy turns cheerful, even winsome. Lloyd Cole, ever the brooding, literary lover, is …

After Lloyd Cole’s twentysomething years of making music first with his band the Commotions and then solo, his career had become somewhat rote – an album every couple of years …

Cole might live in New York City these days but on his eighth solo CD, the once-brooding Brit has come up with a record that’s the aural equivalent of a …

While not many on this side of the pond have noticed, Lloyd Cole, that smart, blackly humorous self-deprecating Scottish songwriter has been assembling a nice catalog, chock-full of fine recordings. …

The intimate scale and wry, self-effacing tone of ”Antidepressant” are a comfortable fit for Lloyd Cole, a singer-songwriter still best known as the frontman for the Commotions, a 1980’s Brit-rock band. It’s a mostly homemade effort…

Lloyd Cole has been gracing us with his vocal presence for more than 20 years, but the odd thing about his voice is that it hasn’t changed a bit. The aging process for musicians isn’t usually very kind, but the effects of time…

Why is Lloyd Cole not a household name in North America? A brilliant singer-songwriter who fronted a terrific band before striking out on his own, Cole is maddeningly consistent; he releases albums that are thought-provoking and lyrical. And yet, he’s not a household name.

Lloyd who?, you ask. Few Brit indie singer-songwriters can lay claim to giving Morrissey a run for his money in the 1980s, but Lloyd Cole gave a good account of …

Pop music is the province of youth. At least pop music in the sense of “popular,” as teens and twentysomethings rule the top 40 charts.

By his own estimation, Lloyd Cole has released only two records, “Music in a Foreign Language” and “Rattlesnakes,” his first release with his band the Commotions, that have, in retrospect, …