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Review: 'COLE, LLOYD'
'1D'   

-  Label: 'Bureau B'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: '4th September 2015'

Our Rating:
Something of an oddity this one and this would be best explained by putting it into some sort of context.

These are leftover 'pieces' from a previous project undertaken by Lloyd Cole (he of perfect skin) for Bureau B in collaboration with Hans Joachim Roedelius. Adding to the 'oddity' stakes is the fact that Mr. Cole has composed these pieces on a modular synth and had to teach himself from scratch how to do this.

This means that we are in Generative Music territory and I am probably out of my depth but I shall press on. For me the tracks that work best on this album are the longer pieces. I get a chance to sink into it then and the changes become more important amongst the repetition. Perhaps also the generative aspects get more of a chance to play out? So, 'Strands', 'Slight Orchestra', 'The Bund' and 'Ken-O' are my favourites and the majority of the other tracks are not really gripping me at this juncture.

Generally speaking we have been incredibly spoilt by the releases on this label and even just the material they have put out in the last year or two would put most labels whole careers to shame. Perhaps if I heard the Roedelius collaboration that would help in my assessment of this album?

'1D' reminds me a little of Aphex Twin's more ambient material although not quite at that level. Lloyd Cole says of the work, "Are the student's works necessarily inferior to the master's?", and while this is a sentiment I wholeheartedly concur with, in this instance I would probably say that they are.              
  author: Leo Newbiggin

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