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Lloyd Cole - Music in a Foreign Language |
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Written by Nicholas Jennings
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 At his best, on his first two mid-’80s albums with his band the Commotions, the bookish Brit rocker successfully juggled cynicism and pretension—with irony as his foil. Cole’s star fell after moving to New York, where he’s become an articulate depressive. Here, he sings in his conversational drone about disaffected romance, drugs and Los Angeles. And while he admits on “Shelf Life” that he’s “consumed by delusions of grandeur,” he adds that he’s “no longer waiting for the publisher’s call.” Which is probably a smart move.
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