★★★★★
Just who exactly is Cold Cave mastermind Wesley Eisold? Is he the hipster-baiting darkwave impresario previously skewered on this site as an embarrassingly sincere Ian Curtis impersonator? Or is he the purveyor of stadium-sized synth-pop, lauded for making "the kind of noise the Killers might if they were pumped full of amphetamines"? Or is he instead the bedroom industrial producer and Prurient collaborator of Cold Cave's early releases...
- thequietus.com
2015-06-19
★★★★★
Shoot for the moon--even if you miss you'll...probably end up making a total fucking faceplant. That's a lesson many people in have learned the hard way in Hollywood, and to hear Wesley Eisold tell it, he's one of them. His last Cold Cave record, 2011's Cherish the Light Years, was an explosive lunar launch that embraced every opportunity to tell you how awesome it was--nothing but souped-up goth-rock jock jams, bombastic lyrics and hyper-loud Brick Wall of China production...
- pitchfork.com
2014-05-20
★★★★★
Are you tired of listening to bands who sound like the lead singer has a serious Nick Cave complex? Who use monotonous synth soundscapes adopted from experimental new wave of the late 1970s? US threesome Cold Cave may not make the kind of music that you would appreciate, then. I'm not saying that it's terrible or anything - quite the opposite, actually - it's just... well, it's all a bit on the trendy side, I'm afraid...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Cold Cave is the NYC-based brainchild of Wesley Eisold, who fancies himself the poster child of 21st century nihilism. Light Years is supposed to be a modern re-envisioning of New Wave, but there's a blurring of the lines here between building upon an existing genre and merely being derivative. Singer Eisold successfully melds Peter Murphy's bass with Robert Smith's whine on "The Great Pan Is Dead," while Daryl Palumbo's guitar "Confetti" straight-up apes Bernard Sumner's New Order axe work...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-11-07
★★★★★
The title tracks of this new Cold Cave album suggest something dark and sinister. Terms like death, churches, things burning, villains and alchemy; whoohoo be prepared! What a surprise then to find vibes that are predominantly cheerfull and for the dancefloor. Opener 'The Great Pan is Dead' is more in your face than you ever dreamt of. Its fast paced drums and euphoric synthwork makes your face crinkle and your teeth grind...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2011-07-25
★★★★★
French author Jean Genet once said, "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." His statement could apply to Cold Cave project leader Wesley Eisold. Before establishing Cold Cave, Eisold was a member of hardcore groups Some Girls, American Nightmare, and XO Skeletons. However, his hardcore roots were traded for more electronic and synth tinkerings for his debut Cold Cave album, 2009's Love Comes Close...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare It's Going to be a Cold Summer Fresh from New York new wave synthpop group Cold Cave comes their sophomore album, Cherish the Light Years. Fronted by punker gone pop Wesley Eisold Give Up the Ghost, Some Girls, XO Skeletons) he handles most of the production himself while supported by musicians Dominick Fernow (Prurient) and Jennifer Clavin (Mika Miko) during live performances...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
If you didn't know that Wesley Eisold wrote sad-eyed poetry and had a past in industrial and hardcore (to say nothing of his present in icy electronics), you will after this marauding album. Swirling Euro-melodies reminiscent of Depeche Mode, thudding and shuddering synths, and his coolly quavering baritone mark "Burning Sage" and "Confetti" like a pox. But the finest element of this sophomore effort is Eisold's dedication to his adopted N.Y.C. Fans of Lou Reed's New York: rejoice.
- filtermagazine.com
2011-05-18
★★★★★
Post-punk nostalgia has been at an all-time high lately, which is strange when you consider how bands like Interpol and Franz Ferdinand were so lovingly attached to their angular aesthetics they were christened as 'revivalists' at the beginning of the decade. But this burgeoning post-all-that generation operates differently; they're almost all American and riding the dark, cold waves of the Eurocentric side of the late '70s, rather than just engaging in blatant Anglophilia...
- www.musicomh.com
2011-05-11
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