February 17, 1990
“Lloyd Cole” is a record of hirsute brilliance. Lloyd has always
been a bookworm in black, but now his lyrics are funnier, crueller, more
capable of being hurt and of lashing out.
January 15, 1990
WHEN Lloyd Cole pushed off to New York it seemed reasonable to fear the worse, and when he produced his new set of publicity photos it seemed the fears were …
November 25, 1987
THIS title is very misleading. Lloyd Cole has, in fact, moved right away from his former mainsteam of bright rock music and this album has a bleakness about – both …
February 24, 1986
Their 1985 debut album, Rattlesnakes, earned Britain’s Lloyd Cole and the Commotions a reputation as a thinking man’s pop band. With a musical style borrowing heavily from American folkrock, the …
January 26, 1986
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions. Geffen. After entering the intellectual-but-sensitive-young-man school of British rock on last year’s “Rattlesnake,” Cole and company are trying for more depth by incorporating a style …
January 8, 1985
LLOYD COLE must know how it feels to be a tug-of-war rope. Hailed in some quarters as a truly gifted kid, a bright spark in the school of literate pop, …