Lloyd Cole has been making meticulously literate music for two decades, balanced in recent years by a warmth that seldom seeped into his work with his first band, the Commotions.

Popular musicians long ago ... serves as a gloriously bubbly answer to Lloyd Cole's "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken," one of the all-time great breakup songs. Sophisticated pop that draws on ...

He offered handwritten lyrics to songs dating back to his ‘80s band Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, and joined the crowd-funding site Patreon, where he offered guitar lessons, posted pages from his ...