★★★★★
It takes a few tracks before you begin to realize that this is a good idea. On The Jamie Neverts Story, legendary Rocket From the Tombs and Televison guitarist Richard Lloyd covers a bunch of Hendrix tunes, in tribute both to Jimi and to a late friend, Velvert Turner. Lloyd's voice just can't hang with either the stoned smoothness of "Purple Haze" nor the passionate "I Don't Live Today." But by the fifth track, "May This Be Love," you start to believe...
- www.prefixmag.com
2009-09-05
★★★★★
Did you know that Richard Lloyd was still making music? He has just put out an album called The Radiant Monkey. Legendary for his work in Television, Lloyd seems to have moved more decidedly in the direction of the blues that his early work hinted at. And now that he's singing, it becomes that much more apparent. The first cut, "Monkey," sounds like gravelly, blues-standard, bar-band material...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Blackballed by the New York scene after Television's demise cued a terrible junk spiral, Richard Lloyd cut Field Of Fire in rural Sweden, and while the production is fashionably boomy and his singing gruff at best, there's something not to be denied about Soldier Blue or Watch Yourself, stirring trad rockers that make Tom Verlaine's solo efforts sound overly academic...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Lloyd really has his pop down, and this record never fails to cheer me when it comes on--the songwriting and guitar textures are consistently tuneful and affecting. I don't mind that he always sings off-key, either--part of the charm of his pop is how loose it is...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
In crucial ways he predates punk, and formally this is more Warren Zevon or Tom Petty than Tom Verlaine. What makes it go isn't songwriting--please, kids, never ever rhyme "fire" and "funeral pyre." It's Lloyd's concentration, plus of course his guitar, which I'll take over Mike Campbell's or even Waddy Wachtel's nine tries out of ten.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Former Television guitarist Richard Lloyd's solo career could best be described as fitful. This is just his fifth solo album in nearly three decades, and the album cover should clue you in to part of the problem. I'm not talking about the self-destructive recreation options it depicts, although in years past Lloyd's certainly consumed more of some of them than was wise, but the cluelessness it takes to put your record inside something so hideous and try to sell it...
- dustedmagazine.com
2009-06-08
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