Name: Lloyd Cole
Brand: Capitol/EMI Records
SKU: 337286
Availability: OutOfStock

Lloyd Cole

Rating

Album: Lloyd Cole
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Don't Look Back
2)	What Do You Know About Love?
3)	No Blue Skies
4)	Loveless
5)	Sweetheart
6)	To the Church
7)	Downtown
8)	Long Way Down, A
9)	Ice Cream Girl
10)	Undressed
11)	I Have to See You Baby Doing That Stuff
12)	Waterline
13)	Mercy Killing

Album: Lloyd Cole
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Don't Look Back
2)	What Do You Know About Love?
3)	No Blue Skies
4)	Loveless
5)	Sweetheart
6)	To the Church
7)	Downtown
8)	Long Way Down, A
9)	Ice Cream Girl
10)	Undressed
11)	I Have to See You Baby Doing That Stuff
12)	Waterline
13)	Mercy Killing

Performer Notes

Producers: Lloyd Cole, Fred Maher, Paul Hardiman.
In the two and a half years following the release of Mainstream, Lloyd Cole signed to Capitol Records in the U.S., split from the Commotions, and moved to New York. For his first solo album, he assembled a team consisting of two New York band veterans -- drummer/co-producer Fred Maher and guitarist Robert Quine, both of whom had played in Richard Hell's Voidoids and Lou Reed's backup group -- plus bassist Matthew Sweet and Commotions keyboard player Blair Cowan. As a result, Lloyd Cole boasts a tougher, harder sound than the Commotions' records. Cole's vocals, meanwhile, have become more direct and less stylized. Cole's lyrics are also less adorned, and he has lightened up somewhat. Much of Lloyd Cole is musically astringent in a way Cole hasn't managed previously, even if the album is far less ambitious than his first two records. ~ William Ruhlmann

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly - "..obsessive and contemplative" - Rating: B-

Q - Include in Q's list of the "Fifty Best Albums Of 1990."

Q (6/95, p.134) - 3 Stars - Good - "...It is criminal that Cole's market has diminished as his music has improved, wine-like, with age..."