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- Date Released: November 2, 2009
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Matador
Pitch-black, pitch-perfect synth-pop for dancing alone
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We Say...
A strange thing happened when an engineer — specifically, former DFA employee Eric Broucek — lifted the heavily-distorted outer layers of an early mix of "Love Comes Close": Cold Cave founder/frontman Wesley Eisold realized he could sing. Not that he couldn't hold a tune in his previous pair of post-hardcore bands, Give Up the Ghost and Some Girls. It's just that they required a healthy amount of shouting, too, not anything that would allude to the pitch-dark pop tunes of, say, Nitzer Ebb and New Order. And now that Cold Cave's shifted from the experimental solo singles of its Cremations compilation to a consistent power trio that includes Caralee McElroy (ex-Xiu Xiu) and noise demigod Prurient, Eisold is fully embracing his long dormant love of dance music for people who aren't afraid of the dark.
Matador's reissue of Cold Cave's self-released Love Comes Close LP is fascinating on several levels. For one thing, Eisold succeeds by actually sounding as morose and melancholic as his lyric sheet. That said, tracks like "The Trees Grew Emotions and Died," "Youth and Lust" and "Heaven Was Full" aren't downers so much as strictly-analog synth pop that avoids the look-out-weekend bent of bands like the Faint. As Eisold says in Cold Cave's bio, "I dread clubs but I love the music they play in them." In otherwords: it's time to dance with yourself while clutching your weathered copy of Baudelaire.
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| 01. |  |
Cebe And Me |
3:44 |
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| 02. | |
Love Comes Close |
4:26 |
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| 03. | |
Life Magazine |
2:57 |
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| 04. | |
The Laurels Of Erotomania |
2:53 |
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| 05. | |
Heaven Was Full |
3:44 |
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| 06. | |
The Trees Grew Emotions And Died |
4:05 |
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| 07. | |
Hello Rats |
1:49 |
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| 08. | |
Youth And Lust |
4:02 |
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| 09. | |
I.C.D.K. |
3:49 |
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| 10. | |
Double Lives In Single Beds |
2:46 |
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| 11. | |
Theme From Tomorrowland |
4:44 |
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| 12. | |
Now That I’m In The Future |
3:12 |
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12 Total Tracks, 42:11 Total Length
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