by LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS
Release Date: 28 April 2023
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: PROPER RECORDS
£24.99
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions Easy Pieces Limited 180gram Vinyl LP
Overview:
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Cole, Blair Cowan, Lawrence Donegan, Neil Clark and Stephen Irvine – were formed in Glasgow in 1982, where Buxton-born singer-songwriter Cole was studying Philosophy and English at the University of Glasgow -Their sound swam against the tide of shiny 80s synthesisers, offering intense, melodic, guitar-based pop, topped with droll words packed with literary references.
Given just how loved debut album Rattlesnakes was, it would have been hard for whatever followed to be received as warmly – yet Easy Pieces made a good first of it. It was to sell twice as many copies in its first two weeks as Rattlesnakes had to date, giving the group a Top 5 chart placing on its release in November 1985. Recorded with 80s super-producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, its first two singles, the brooding, gospel influenced Brand New Friend and the forever-jaunty Lost Weekend reached the UK Top 20.
This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1985 Polydor Records UK release with printed inner sleeve and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl using the artist-approved 2020 remaster.
Featured Tracks:
Side: 1
1 Rich
2 Why I Love Country Music
3 Pretty Gone
4 Grace
5 Cut Me Down
Side: 2
1 Brand New Friend
2 Lost Weekend
3 James
4 Minor Character
5 Perfect Blue
Release Date: 26 May 2023
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: PROPER RECORDS
£24.99
Release Date: 05 April 2023
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: PROPER RECORDS
£24.99
