Fans of 80s popster Lloyd Cole will doubtless be interested in the release of this new album.
However, anyone expecting swooning pop hits in the vein of ‘Perfect Skin’ or ‘Lost Weekend’ may need to think again. Cole has recently worked with avant-garde electronic composer German Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and this solo release is in fact based around unused parts of 2013’s ‘Selective Studies Vol. 1’.
‘Ken-O’ is like a completed soundtrack to a lunar documentary, but much of the rest are sequences of high-pitched and slightly jarring blips and squawks. So rather than ‘Rattlesnakes’ crossed with ‘The Model’ it’s more ‘Kling Klang’ Kraftwerk, or oriental-themed classicist Tomita. In short, music for robots (or Cole completists).
