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 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 …
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.
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 …
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, …
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.
March 6, 2011
The prelude to Lloyd Coles Broken Record reads like a story worthy of the history books in itself. You see the former frontman of The Commotions turned solo artist spent …
March 5, 2011
NOT only is the latest Lloyd Cole solo album very good, but it could be described as being one for the fans; after all, they paid for it. Partly financed …
March 1, 2011
Dont worry folks, its not really a broken record. That would just be a waste of money!
With The Commotions, Lloyd Cole arguably peaked too early with his 1984 debut Rattlesnakes, …
January 25, 2011
Coles country and folk influences are evident in the use of instruments like the pedal steel, banjo and mandolin, as well as the narrative nature of his lyrics. I must …