Lloyd Cole

FRIPP & ENO

(No Pussyfooting) ISLAND/EG, 1973

don’t remember if I bought this or if I swapped it with a friend, but I ended up with a copy. I knew Roxy Music – I’d swapped my copy of Goats Head Soup for For Your Pleasure – and I’d listened to pop and rock music, but I had no idea what this was, made with Frippertronics and two Revox machines. I thought, ‘I like this, this is not like anything I’ve heard before!’ This was the beginning of my relationship with electronic music, which has