Issues – Make Old to New: Lloyd Cole, Travis, The Apartment

BERLIN (dpa) – Releasing old albums isn’t always necessary – in the case of Lloyd Cole’s “Antidepressant”, the debut of the Scottish band Travis and a masterpiece of Australian apartments, many fans of discerning precarious pop cheered. needed .

Briton Lloyd Colley, who suddenly became famous 37 years ago with the era-making debut “Rattlesnake”, has since also released fine studio records (and still regularly today). One of them was “Antidepressant” 15 years ago with some of its most beautiful songs, sparkling between melancholy and fickleness. The re-release with a prerecorded, previously unmanaged bonus track (“Coattails”) should be the start of a new re-issue series by this amazing singer-songwriter.

The album, originally released in September 2006, is now available on vinyl for the first time through Cannes, with both records and CDs featuring “Coattails” as an encore. Between the sublime “Music in a Foreign Language” (2003) and the brilliant country pop of “Broken Record” (2010), “Antidepressant” is a sequel in Cole Noties, in which he was no longer a star, but still a critic. the favorite.

“There is not a single song on the album that I regret, and ‘The Young Idealists’, ‘Woman in a Bar’ and ‘Rolodex Incident’ are shoulder to shoulder with their best material,” says the musician, who Turned 60 years old in January. .

The timing of their number one album was still a long way in the future when Glasgow’s band Travis released the first film in September 1997 with the appropriate title “Good Feeling”. Because you could already have a “good feeling” by including some great singles with some of these thicker, rockier songs. The work is now being released in its original format on 12-track vinyl through Kraft Recording / Universal for the first time.

At that time “Good Feeling” was overseen by top producer Steve Lillyweight (U2, The Rolling Stones, Morrissey, Peter Gabriel). The song “More Than Us” reached the Top 20 in the spring of 1998, the album by Scottish newcomers around frontman and songwriter Fran Healy landed at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart. The way was paved for guitar pop classics “The Man Who” (1999) and “The Invisible Band” (2001) – both topping the charts. To date – “10 Songs” was only released in 2020 – Travis is very successful, especially in his native UK.

The band was not British, but came from Brisbane and Sydney in Australia – the apartments were quite close to the melancholy British guitar pop sound of the 1980s. His third album “A Life Full of Fairwells” was released in 1995, two years after the indie gem “Drift”.

The delicate ballads, often separated through a trumpet, once again showcased the great talent of singer and songwriter Peter Milton Walsh. He moved to England when he was signed to the apartment for the legendary English record label Rough Trade – this could also explain the British influences on his music.

Under-Greater McLennan of compatriot The Go-Betweens said of various personalities: “Walsh is night, we are day. We are sun, that is rain.” Often times, apartment pieces actually look so gloomy and shady that they don’t really fit on a sunny day.

“Farewell to Life” already contained the trademark sound Walsh introduced in the new works “No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal” (2015) and “In and Out of the Light” (2020). The major work of the British-influenced Australian indie pop is being re-released on CD, vinyl and digitally through the Tallitress / Rough Trade.