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June 30, 2009

New Cold Cave - "Life Magazine"

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Philadelphia BTW Cold Cave is an interesting entity, straddling noise, synth-pop, darkwave, power electronics, and art/transgressive literature via their Heartworm Press. (You might recognize their current cover star Marti Domination from Cremaster 1.) Wesley Eisold remains the central creator, it seems, but he's joined by a revolving cast that includes ex-Xiu Xiu member Caralee McElroy, the writer (and MJ fan) Max G. Morton, Dominick Fernow (aka Prurient), and J. Benoit. The forthcoming first proper full-length Loves Comes Close features a mix of these forces. See, for instance, the McElroy-fronted "Life Magazine," which offers a sunnier switchup.

Cold Cave - "Life Magazine" (MP3)
(Via The Fader)

Love Comes Close is out via Heartworm. Listen to the collection's title track and some others at at Myspace.

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i just bought the "blood on my hands" single from the used, and its AMAZING! if you havent heard it yet you need to go to theused.net and listen to it RIGHT NOW....ive seriously been listening to it on repeat all morning haha

Posted by: steve at 06/30/09 2:53 PM | Reply
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Wow, you cut and pasted your own comment from Prefix. You're a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Johnnyboy in reply to steve's comment at 06/30/09 4:22 PM | Reply
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I listened to "Sex Ads" when these folks were a BTW and got a headache. I listened to this and liked it an awful lot.

So, you know, thumbs up.

Posted by: UrfMcgurf at 06/30/09 4:17 PM | Reply
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So far only The Magnetic Fields can slather distortion all over pop arrangements and still have everything sound great.

Posted by: Thierry's "Les Bananes" at 06/30/09 6:40 PM | Reply
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so glad Caralee has turned back up and in a great band!

Posted by: James Mandible at 06/30/09 8:45 PM | Reply
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Paper Werewolf

I loved Wes back when he was shouting anthems with American Nightmare/Give Up The Ghost, but this is just sort of okay.

I think I'll go dig out my copy of "We're Down Til We're Underground' and relive my not-so-distant youth.

Posted by: Paper Werewolf profile link at 07/01/09 2:05 AM | Reply
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