Flames rising
The law hides in fear
Cars burning
Mob surging near
It’s warm by the fire
It’s warmer by the fire
Lloyd Cole has released a short film to accompany his new single ‘Warm By The Fire’, the first single from his forthcoming new album ‘On Pain’ via earMUSIC. Head here to listen
The film is a collaboration between Lloyd Cole and Canadian film maker Douglas Arrowsmith from Feltfilm.
Inspired by the biblical wildfires that swept across California prior to the pandemic? The end of days warnings of Greta Thunberg? The pension riots in Paris? A treatise on the human desire for destruction? Cole won’t say. ‘Warm By The Fire’ is a JG Ballard story in miniature.
‘Warm By The Fire’ the mini-movie was filmed on the shores of Lake Ontario, and features an interpretive performance by dance artist Nyda Kwasowsky from the National Ballet School of Canada; the video is further punctuated by a handful of Toronto skaters and global riot footage, interspersed with Lloyd’s AI generated images of LA.
Says Lloyd Cole: “I wanted skateboards. Doug found Nyda. We’ve ended up with a dance interpretive of something which may or may not be happening.”
Says Douglas Arrowsmith: “We were looking for a way to create a kind of game-like repetition of images at the core of the video, fuelled by Kwasowsky’s celebration of the insurgency. Lloyd is very fast – the entire thing was shot and delivered in just under a week. And can I just add…. I MEAN COME ON!! IT’S LLOYD COLE! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? His music has been massive for me. I remember hauling hordes of people back to my place from a university party to make them watch Lloyd perform on the David Letterman Show. Thirty kids huddled around a TV in the dead of Canadian winter. Amazing. Different works for different seasons, the songs are crucial. Always will be.”
On 23rd June ‘23 Lloyd Cole will release his twelfth album as a solo artist. Entitled ‘On Pain’, it features eight new Lloyd Cole songs, four of which are co-written by Commotions founding members Blair Cowan and Neil Clark, who also perform on the record. The album is produced by Chris Merrick Hughes and was recorded in Lloyd’s attic studio The Establishment in Massachusetts. Lloyd has already released a selection of mixes of the closing song on the album ‘Wolves’.
Pre-orders available now
https://lloydcole.lnk.to/OnPain
