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Former vocalist of the hardcore bands Give Up the Ghost and Some Girls, Cold Cave represents Wesley Eisold’s earliest excursion into instrumentation. Born with one hand, electronic music production through synths and drum machines were seen as more accessible to the musician who released his earliest material on Dais Records. In 2008 Eisold issued his debut EP “Coma Potion” on Heartwood Records, which was followed by the full-length “Love Comes Close” in 2009. Led by the single “The Trees Grew Emotions and Died”, the record earned a host of esteemed reviews and spawned the subsequent singles “The Laurels” and “Life Magazine”.
A pair of EPs followed in 2010, the first a split release with Prurient entitled “Stars Explode” and the second a collection of remix for his track “Life Magazine”. The following year Cold Cave issued the sophomore studio album “Cherish the Light Years” on Matador Records. Earning posistive reviews from the likes of Pitchfork Media, the album spawned the singles “The Great Pan Dead”, “Villains of the Moon”, and “Confetti” / “Believe in My Blood”.
Initially intended to feature on an upcoming album, the singles “A Little Death to Laugh”, “Oceans with No End”, “God Made the World”, “Black Boots”, and “Nausea, The Earth and Me” appeared in 2012 and 2013. The following year Cold Cave issued a pair of compilations “Cremations” and “Full Cold Moon” both of which collected his most thoughtful and challenging tracks to appeal to a larger audience.
Avis
The music of Cold Cave live is a dark, synthpop, noisy affair. But that is what you are here for, right? He puts on the loudest, synthetic, noise music you will hear. Heads are banging and drinks are being poured.
The audience is rather relaxed, listening to the haunting synthetic sounds, until one woman lets out an excited yell for the musician and his sounds. Heads begin to loosen and bob a bit, and the music ends on a dark note with a short burst of applause from the audience.But that is just one, intimate affair full off the hip and the young.
When Cold Cave plays a large, concert venue the audience gets fully into it. As the lights flashed in quick time in Coppenhagen heads were banged, applause was made, and the darkness was celebrated in both the audience and the music. The light shows were nothing short of spectacular, as bright white flashes gave way to blue circles of ominous darkness. It perfectly underscored the gothic synthetic sounds that made up the musician's performance.
You could not be there without feeling like you were being hypnotized by a new wave of sound and noise.
Darkwave musician Wesley Eisold better known by his stage name Cold Cave seems to dismiss all conventions of a live performance. Even in the smallest venues, a view of the stage and suitable stage lighting is seen to be a necessity yet to match the dark undertones of his synth pop he prefers a dusky affair which seems to strangely connect him, the music and the fans more succinctly. Performing with a couple of other musicians, the whole performance feels rather impromptu and unplanned as the group skip between the fast paced to the disjointed and surreal.
It is undoubtedly engaging and the audience gets completely behind it as there is very little you could compare a Cold Cave show to. It becomes rather noisy at times as all the musicians begin to jam seemingly simultaneously yet this then contrasts the sultry, silent tones of 'Undone' even more. With a strange working formula and a dedication to his art, a Wesley Eisold show was never going to be a straight forward state of affairs yet the audience seem to genuinely enjoy stepping within his darkened world for 90 minutes of truly original synth pop.
sean-ward
Well, I made to the Cold Cave show last night at the Paper Tiger Club here in San Antonio. Unfortunately I wasn't all that in to Cold Cave. They kept the lights low so you couldn't really see anybody on stage and they didn't move around very much. There were a few really good songs like 'Glory' but the rest were like album songs that you listen to once and then skip over. But the rest of the crowd seemed to like them. I was like 'meh' and left early.
I missed the first opening act Choir Boy but I didn't get to see the second one Black Marble. That was a treat! I think they surprised the crowd with their beautiful style. Really nice melodies and bass lines. They made the concert worth seeing. I'd definitely go see them again.
premiumrub
Cold Cave were pretty basic New Order like band. The crowd seemed to like them but not as much as they liked Adult. Adult are so original and just amazing to watch. It may be that Adult has more of a hardcore cult following and that's why the energy for their show was so intense. Both bands were great in their own right. It was disappointing that Psychic TV couldn't be there but we still had fun. I do hope Genesis gets better.
kookoocoffey
Third time seeing Cold Cave. Favorite performance so far, they put on amazing show. Openers ADULT. and Vowws were really badass too! My only complaint is that the venue (Paper Tiger in San Antonio) does not support videos so the audience misses out on that part. No fault of the bands, just what the venue is lacking.
atomicundead
Amazing show! My first time at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever actually and it just fit the vibe and atmosphere so well. Never seen a crowd of fans so happy to be there. SRSQ was scary good too!
theblondejosephlee
