The Independent Sunday 8 January 2012
Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horseplay
by Simon Price
****


Lazarus and the Plane Crash is a project fronted by Joe Coles of defunct berserkers The Guillotines and Stephen Coates, aka The Real Tuesday Weld aka The Clerkenwell Kid. Horseplay, whose oversized packaging folds out into a Ouija board, is a peripatetic, eclectic magpie’s nest of styles, with Coles alternating between a badass Beef-heartian blues rasp and a more courtly Cole Porter diction, while Coates provides an alluring cut-and-past backing of vintage found sounds.