Cold Cave

Cherish The Light Years

  • MOG Editorial Review

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    Though Cold Cave received plenty of buzz for their debut album, Love Comes Close, many considered the New Order-loving band one-trick pony. However, this idea gets thrown out in the first few seconds of "The Great Pan Is Dead," the opening track for their sophomore effort, Cherish the Light Years. A flurry of noise from ferocious guitar riffs and new wave synths on the song immediately remind you that frontman Wesley Eisold used to front hardcore band Give Up the Ghost before this current project, and the new hybrid sound is unlike anything else being made today. This is true of other tracks, like the horn-filled "Burning Sage" and the dark electro number "Catacombs." It'll be jarring to many, but adventurous for those willing to have an open mind, and proof that Eisold might create a truly epic album sooner rather than later.
  • AMG Review of Cherish the Light Years

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    Tim Sendra
    All Music Guide

    Cold Cave's debut album, Love Comes Close, was so strong and original, so filled with heart-stopping songs built around hissing electronics and dancefloor-ready beats, that it must have been hard for Wes Eisold and Caralee McElroy to think about bettering it. Especially after McElroy left the group. Despite these changes and the inherent challenges of the follow-up, Cherish the Light Years succeeds almost completely. It’s a different kind of record, to be sure; everything about it feels bigger, sleeker, and more assured from the vocals to the production. They sound less like a damaged early New Order and more like the New Order that played in stadiums, with Eisold singing to reach the back rows and the synths swelling around him like fortress walls. It’s an impressive sound that the band and producer Chris Coady (who did similar work on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It’s Blitz) have created; tracks like "The Great Pan Is Dead" and "Catacombs" come tearing out of the speakers with a barely restrained fire; the more restrained songs have a depth that was missing from the debut, and the dancefloor-friendly "Icons of Summer" could even be a pop radio hit in some alternate musical universe. It’s easy to lament the passing of the lo-fi fragility that band did so well on Love, understandable even. Once you get over it, though, there is plenty to like on Cherish, from the unfailingly memorable songs to Eisold’s winningly in-your-face vocal mannerisms.

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