Lloyd Cole will release his 12th solo album, On Pain, on June 23 via EarMUSIC. The record features his former Commotions bandmates Blair Cowan and Neil Clark, who co-wrote four of the songs on the ...

Lloyd Cole has been dabbling with synthesizers for a while now, but it came as a surprise when he merged his electronic experimentation with pop songcraft on his 2019 album Guesswork. Once known for a ...

Like the relationships they limn, Stars' songs don't take a straight line. They're closer to mini-suites, bouncing wildly from one mood to another, giving them a vertiginous energy. Campbell — the ...

“It didn’t go very well, but then I found myself thinking, ‘I want to see if I can make something using my aesthetics for songs, and also for sound, as much as music,” says. Cole. “One of the reasons ...

Instead, the singer-songwriter offers up a palette of synthesisers and drum machines. For those who grew up listening to his Eighties' classic, Rattlesnakes, it can be a little disorientating. Scratch ...

There was a time when Lloyd Cole could cause a commotion just by walking down the street. Especially in Portugal. "Believe it or not, the most famous I ever was would have been about 1987 in Portugal.

Lloyd Cole has been making meticulously literate music for two decades, balanced in recent years by a warmth that seldom seeped into his work with his first band, the Commotions. At this solo acoustic ...

After Lloyd Cole’s twentysomething years of making music, first with his band the Commotions and then solo, his career had become somewhat rote — an album every couple of years, but nothing that ...