April 11, 2011
It takes a lot of guts for a singer/songwriter to sing a tune like Broken Record. It takes even more intestinal fortitude to title an album with that very phrase, yet Lloyd Cole takes that risk on his latest long player.
May 10, 2011
Has Lloyd Cole really fallen so far off the radar? Yes, he has. The man is still best-known for his first album, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 1984 indie masterpiece, …
January 14, 2012
It is indeed gratifying to see that this album has been issued after festering for too long in the vaults of the BBC. It makes you wonder how many more …
January 31, 2013
Odd as it may seem for a guitar-toting wordsmith to release a collaborative album of electronica in which he never opens his mouth or so much as brushes past a guitar, Lloyd Cole actually has a bit of form in this respect.
February 13, 2013
Yes, that Lloyd Cole, of The Commotions and Rattlesnakes fame, now collaborating with Roedelius, ambient pioneer and co-founder of the krautrock groups Cluster and Harmonia, and very much in Roedelius …
February 18, 2013
Anyone approaching this album expecting a straight mash-up of Lloyd Coles darkly literate indie-pop and the far-out krautrock of Hans-Joachim Roedeliuss Cluster and Harmonia days will be vastly disappointed. Cole …
February 20, 2013
Overall, Cole and Roedelius may be onto something as a partnership, with Cole no doubt feeding off Roedelius vast experience in this field: compared to Plastic Wood, this is a far more accomplished and consistent record with some real memorable moments.
February 20, 2013
Yes, that Lloyd Cole. College pin up of the 80s, briefly pop star in the 90s, and then into country in his more mature years. Hes now grey and plays …
February 22, 2013
How exactly does a highly regarded British singer-songwriter ditch the polish and pathos and get it on with a noted practitioner of avant-garde electronic music without failing miserably?
February 22, 2013
I’ll confess to raising an eyebrow or two when I read about this as a forthcoming project but, after a swift glance through Lloyd Cole’s solo works, in particular his Plastic Wood material on the Recordings box-set over a decade ago, it’s easy to hear the connection