LLOYD COLE Cleaning Out The Ashtrays (2009 UK 4-CD album set - For singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole, now is the time for 'Cleaning Out the Ashtrays' - for sorting through dusty boxes of cassettes, DAT tapes and CDs in his Easthampton hideaway, totake stock and find all those lost songs; half remembered sessions, much-missed fellow-musicians and gifted co-producers. A goldmine of music from 21 years as a solo artist. Here, are 59 [count 'em] nuggets from the Cole vaults. A 4-CD boxsetbursting with unreleased songs, alternate versions, rare b-sides, cover versions [Lou Reed, Marc Bolan and Leonard Cohen songs], and a few tracks that the record companies [and on occasion, even Lloyd himself] just didn't get at the time. Cole has researched and compiled the 'Cleaning Out the Ashtrays' project himself - now, all of us can share in the riches that lay hidden inside that dusty old boxes.)