Friday, February 28, 2020

Day 0544 - Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions "Rattlesnakes" (1984)


Lloyd was obsessed with Bob Dylan and certainly seems to have taken a similarly literary approach to his lyric writing.  However, his vocal style seem to sail in between the slow murmur of Lou Reed and the vaguely neurotic yelp of David Byrne early in his Talking Heads days.

The music, likewise, seems to move between countries; sometimes sounding like the Engish alt-rock wash sound of the Cure, and sometimes evoking the US through a dusty desert folk rock sound, or the college rock' of early REM.

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