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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Upcoming / Love I Am Not Fucking With You: Cold Cave Are Killing Me Lately
Posted by Eric Grandy on Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM
No joke, I am not fucking with you. Cold Cave have barely left my iPod for the past week (maybe it's the return of our usual mock-Manchester gray and drizzle), and when they have been bumped from rotation it's usually been due to some professional obligation to listen to something else. Like I say in this week's Up & Coming:
Friday 9/10
Cold Cave, Sleepy Eyes of Death, Absolute Monarchs(Neumos) If you'd asked me what you'd get when you combined former American Nightmare/Some Girls screamer Wesley Eisold with noise artist Prurient (Ian Dominick Fernow), my first guess would not have been insanely catchy and affecting darkwave synth pop. But that's exactly what the two and their crew (which formerly included Xiu Xiu's Caralee McElroy and currently features Mika Miko's Jennifer Clavin) do in Cold Cave. The band's 2009 debut, Love Comes Close, is a superb record of morose new wave, its apathetic drum-machine beats and simply effective synth hooks treated with only the slightest touch of noisy fuzz. Its title track is like what New Order might have sounded like if Ian Curtis had lived to lead them; others sound like Crystal Castles if they'd just calm the fuck down. Cold Cave are further recommended by remixes from the likes of Optimo, Pantha Du Prince, and Arthur Baker. Damn! ERIC GRANDY
I pitched the show for the Stranger Suggests, but Friday was spoken for. Still, I strongly suggest you go to this show.
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