"Downtown" is a song by English singer, songwriter and musician Lloyd Cole, released in 1990 as the third and final single from his self-titled studio album.

[4] Upon its release as a single, Andrew Collins of NME described "Downtown" as "a grateful, sublimely-paced evening song" which "enjoys a harmonica as jam-hot" as the one played on David Bowie's 1977 track "A New Career in a New Town".

He praised the decision to release the song as a single, noting that "as someone at Polydor has finally spotted", it is "the premier track on Lloyd's accomplished and surprisingly unpretentious solo LP".

[5] Selina Webb of Music Week commented that the "warm and touching" song is "classic Cole", "although never quite delivering the full melancholy promised by the intro".

[6] Steve Stewart of the Press and Journal awarded the single five out of five stars and described it as a "wonderfully moody cut, with the cool Cole casual vocal".