Pyjamas say a lot about a musician. Lloyd Cole’s are purple with blue and white stripes; buttons up, collar a little ruffled. Here on my computer screen is a man either coolly oblivious to international media scrutiny or quietly relishing a certain mature-age punkness of presentation.. His brow retains its Brando-esque smoulder under grey hair. But as he blinks away the early Glasgow morning, it’s a survivor’s grit he’s really wearing.
He smiles at that now. “It’s a bit like being an alcoholic and taking one day at a time. It’s hard not to be a cynic. I am massively disappointed by humanity in general. I’ve done my utmost to try and live the best life I could live… but you see an awful lot of people with seemingly no morality whatsoever and it’s very disappointing.”: a lyrically rich anomaly, at the time, in a mostly synthesised scene.
Bleak as his premises can be, there’s no mistaking the romantic streak in Cole’s layered approach to song. The most tender on this new album is, sung from the viewpoint of Iggy Pop on the occasion of his move to Berlin with David Bowie in 1976. The pair famously escaped ruinous drug addiction in Los Angeles to make four influential albums.“I am borderline obsessed with that period… possibly because I was 16 at the time, growing into a slightly more adult appreciation of music,” Cole says.
He’s returned here, where he launched the Commotions after a brief stint studying Philosophy and Literature four decades ago, to prepare hisAs for his home in the music industry, “I retreated from mainstream music in the late 1990s… I started touring as my primary income because I liked the idea of being paid for what I was doing, as opposed to the model that I’d been on for the previous 15 years, which was taking an advance for something that I hadn’t yet done and feeling obliged to then be...
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