December 1, 1989
“I would argue against a word like contrived,” says Lloyd Cole, looking up from his lunch. “All I’m interested in is being remembered as someone who wrote good songs, I …
January 1, 1990
In Britain, the newly solo Lloyd Cole is still trying to shrug off his precious Bohemian undergraduate image. But in France, he’s regarded as a maverick genius, stubblesome style guru …
January 1, 1990
FOR YEARS LLOYD COLE HAS BEEN VILIFIED AS THE MAN WHO PUT THE NANCY INTO POIGNANCY. SHAM OR POP SHAMEN, BOGUS BOHEMIAN OR BRILLIANT BEATNIK – THE ARGUMENT RAGES ON. …
February 25, 1990
LLOYD COLE, once responsible for pretty-boy pop songs like Perfect Skin and Brand New Friend, has gone serious. The former lead-singer of the clean-cut Commotions, prime movers in the early …
June 10, 1990
“My kind of music appeals to journalists and critics,” said English rocker Lloyd Cole, whose first solo album has just been released by Capitol Records.
October 1, 1990
BRITISH singer/writer/instrumentalist Lloyd Cole, formerly of Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, recently debuted his first solo LP Cole, a mainstream star in Europe but a cult figure here, doesn’t necessarily …
November 25, 1990
Lloyd Cole may have discarded his intellectual image along with the Commotions, but his solo work still struggles with pessimism. SIMON REYNOLDS talks to the man who finds optimism redundant.
January 1, 1991
The location is Dublin’s RTE studio; or more precisely, the dressing room toilet. How do you begin an interview when your quarry has just gone into the comfort station? Do …
August 31, 1991
…Don’t get weird on us, babe. Lloyd Cole has dumped those phoney pool-room postures and reverted to angsty, artistic type. Barbara Ellen finds him happy to be pretentious, slapping down …
September 22, 1991
AS soon as you heard the opening verse to Lloyd Cole’s very first single, you knew that here was a performer with more than the occasional John le Carre on …