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Throughout the album, Cole & co. offer up one pop nugget after another, all carefully honed through warts-and-all shows held in New York over the last few years. The result is that The Negatives isn't just Cole's most consistent disc in 11 years; it's also quite possibly his best ever.
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A gentle, finely-wrought memory of an album, The Negatives won't change lives, but it will charm and occasionally haunt them.
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Cole, at age 40, seems comfortable with himself and his career -- quirks, blemishes, and all -- and one would be hard pressed to find any of his U.K. '80s contemporaries making such a strong, winningly melodic album... if they're still making albums at all.
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If a weak link exists it's only that the surprises are few, but in reality it's for that very reason that Cole's music is so comfortable.
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Singing in an airily accented voice that brings to mind fellow Brit popsters Robyn Hitchcock and John Wesley Harding, Cole evokes aural images of indie radio circa 1985.
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It seems hard to believe that the man who made this album is the same one responsible for the 1984's still splendid Rattlesnakes.
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Everyone needs to have a doomed romantic stage, but Lloyd's is going on twenty years.... The lyrical juvenilia is a bit of a shame, because this is a solid collection of pop songs otherwise.
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MackySep 25, 2003Return to Form for Lloyd Cole, very catchy songs, good lyrics, Highly Recomended