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Lost WeekendLloyd Cole & The Commotions24 February 2009 |
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions’ second album, Easy Pieces, had the unenviable job of succeeding Rattlesnakes just one year after it’s release. Fortunately, the album is anything but the typical collection of left-over cuts trimmed from the debut and cobbled together to provide a quick follow up while the band struggles to write new material. No “sophomore slump” here — even if Lloyd—looking and even sounding like a cross between Elvis and Chris Isaak— is on record saying that the album was a “disappointing mistake.” From the rollicking drum beat and punctuating horns that drive the opening track to the wry lyrical twists and turns about relationships and the human condition, Easy Pieces delivers the goods once again with a level of musical sophistication and originality that is rare in pop music.
Easy Pieces was originally released on vinyl in 1985. When it later appeared on CD it had acquired three extra tracks. The album itself reached #5 in the British charts, and yielded three hit singles: “Brand New Friend” (#19), “Cut Me Down” (#38) and today’s Happy Medium Song of the Day: “Lost Weekend” — the band’s highest ever charting UK single (#17). Tomorrow the band attempts to go mainstream…
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Easy Pieces was originally released on vinyl in 1985. When it later appeared on CD it had acquired three extra tracks. The album itself reached #5 in the British charts, and yielded three hit singles: “Brand New Friend” (#19), “Cut Me Down” (#38) and today’s Happy Medium Song of the Day: “Lost Weekend” — the band’s highest ever charting UK single (#17). Tomorrow the band attempts to go mainstream…
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