Q – Listening to “Love Ruins Everything” on Pandora, I happened to glance up and see the album cover photo, the one I call “hotel room after hurricane.” As the day went on I realized most of the cover photos on the Lloyd Cole with and without the Commotions albums show some kind of ruin, some kind of off season neglect, some kind of desolation. I have to ask why? Did you have a major say in what ended up on the cover?
A – I have been very lucky to work with great designers. I love photography and I won’t make an album with a sleeve which is anything less than wonderful. The sleeve is part of the album. The Love Story Album does have an awful lot of sadness in the songs so that photo…
Looking for the name of the photographer I just found this – It was John Divola.