Love Lloyd Cole! Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album Rattlesnakes is great. They were pretty successful in the 80's in Europe. Lloyd went solo in the 90's. Loved his Love Story album as I had just had my first true breakup and I played that cd way too much. Got to see him live in Portland at some very small venues and talk to him about 20+ years ago. He got into some electronic music that wasn't my taste, but love his solo work.
I recently started listening to Kevin Morby, who reminds me of Lloyd quite a bit. Also, the track "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken by Camera Obscura is a response to Cole's track "Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?"