Bradley Cole was born and raised in Southern California. A student of music from a young age, he began guitar lessons at eight years old, and has performed with many music groups. He has recorded three albums of original songs. With In Our Time, his third album, Cole concentrates on extracting new sounds from his guitar, while surrounding himself with some of his favorite New York musicians, including Shawn Pelton on drums, Fernando Saunders from Lou Reed's band on bass, and Marty Willson-Piper from The Church on guitar. Lyrically he concentrated on what was familiar to him. "I try to be as honest and as straightforward as I can be. On this album I wanted to go further with the themes I started to develop on the previous record, torn relationships and the danger and bravery of living life on one's own terms."