Cold Cave

Cold Cave is the moniker for the music of Wesley Eisold based in Los Angeles and New York City whose music is described as a "collage of darkwave, noise, and synth pop". Historyedit: Formation and Love Comes Close (2007-2010)edit: Cold Cave was founded in 2007 by Wesley Eisold, former vocalist of hardcore groups Give Up the Ghost (previously known as American Nightmare), Some Girls. and Heartworm Press founder. Cold Cave represents Eisold's first venture into instrumentation. After initial releases on Dais Records, Hospital Productions, What's Your Rupture?, and Eisold's own Heartworm Press, he signed to Matador Records, who re-released his self-released debut album, Love Comes Close, on November 3, 2009. Cherish the Light Years (2011-2012)edit: In April 2011 Matador Records released his second album, "Cherish the Light Years." In April 2012, Cold Cave performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum between John Chamberlain sculptures as part of the museum's Divine Ricochet series. In October 2012, Cold Cave performed at the Getty Center. On February 21, 2013, Eisold announced that Justin Benoit, a former live contributor to Cold Cave, had died. Third album and new singles (2012-present)edit: In September 2012, Eisold announced Cold Cave would be touring the US later in the year, he would be recording a new album and that the new live line-up included: Hunter Burgan (AFI), London May (Samhain), David Scott Stone (LCD Soundsystem, Melvins) and Cody Votolato (The Blood Brothers, Jaguar Love). This lineup was exclusive to this two-and-a-half-week tour and Eisold said performing with a full band was something that failed to materialize during Cherish the Light Years tours. While continuing to work on a follow-up to Cherish the Light Years, and not under contract with a label, Eisold began independently releasing a series of singles and EPs. Eisold wrote and recorded these new songs by himself similar to how songs on Cremations and Love Comes Close were crafted. He said they were created, "by myself, at a desk in my apartment. It was freeing and exciting in a way because I didn't owe anyone an album. I got to just make them to make them. The songs were minimal, honest, electronic and without help." The first EP in the series was A Little Death to Laugh. The EP was released in October 2012 through Heartworm and a music video for the EP's title track was released in March 2013. In 2013, Eisold released Oceans with No End (through Jacob Bannon's Deathwish Inc.), "God Made the World" and Black Boots.Slava Tsukerman, known for his 1982 film Liquid Sky, directed a music video for the song "Black Boots".

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