Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Easy Pieces (VG+/VG+) – LP, Australasia 1985

Easy Pieces is an LP by Lloyd Cole & The Commotions from 1985 released on the Polydor label.

About this album

Easy Pieces is a sharp, stylish pop-rock album that shows Lloyd Cole & The Commotions refining their literate, guitar-led sound. Issued in 1985, the record followed the group’s breakthrough success and traded in the same clever observational writing, but with a more assured, radio-friendly polish. Led by songs such as “Brand New Friend” and “Lost Weekend”, it pairs jangling melodies with Cole’s detached, bookish wit and a clean, melodic band arrangement. The album helped confirm the Commotions as one of the most distinctive British indie-pop acts of the mid-1980s, where smart lyricism and classic songcraft met neatly.

Genre: Pop & Rock

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