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From the Hip: An intimate performance and interview with Lloyd Cole
10.31.2013
01:43 pm
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Italy’s largest-circulating daily, La Repubblica, recently featured an interview and performances by the wonderful, durable songwriter Lloyd Cole on its “Music Corner” web feature. Cole preforms solo acoustic renditions of his songs “Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?,” “Music in a Foreign Language,” and the new song “Period Piece,” and weighs in on matters like being bound by genre:

I think my - whatever it is that I have, I think it is quite narrow. I think I can just apply it in different areas. I think I found out, you know, in the early ‘90s. My generation of musicians, we grew up with David Bowie as I think probably the hero for many of us, and every album was different, and every persona was a reinvention. And I think we thought that we all had to do this. And I think around about 1993 I realized that… I’m not David Bowie!

 

 
He also discusses music formats in a way that may make vinyl purists pop a forehead vein:

I think when things change from what you expect, it’s difficult. I grew up with an album being this big, and I dream of being a rock singer, and so I think of what I want to make in terms of this 12-inch/30-centimeter square. And when that changed, I was very unhappy, because I felt that this [CD] size was not so good. But you adapt. I mean, I have no choice. When things go digital I adapt. When the internet becomes important and I have to have a presence on it, I adapt. If I don’t adapt, I die. So we adapt, and you know now? I find the 12-inch vinyl, I find it to be quite a bulbous thing. It’s particularly - because I have an Internet web site now, and I have a web shop, we do a lot of shipping - vinyl is not green! It costs a lot of money to ship it. The little CDs I make now are completely cardboard, and they’re very light. And I think they’re more beautiful.

 

 
You can watch the entire interview here.

Bonus: Cole speaks candidly about his career with Telegraph critic Neil McCormick, shortly after the release of his wonderful (as usual) new album Standards.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:

Lloyd Cole is a musical genius (and it’s high time that everyone realized it)

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