WONGIE DISCOVERY: cold cave - love comes close

cold cave - love comes close
[from pitchfork:
Wesley Eisold, the man behind Philadelphia's Cold Cave, is the former frontman for hardcore bands like Some Girls, American Nightmare, and Give Up the Ghost. He was also involved in a plagiarism controversy with Pete Wentz and receives songwriting credit on a Fall Out Boy album. Not exactly the first person you'd expect to be making beautiful, experimental synthpop.

Cold Cave weaves incomprehensibly distorted vocals with bits of synthetic feedback. But songs like "Love Comes Close" and "Life Magazine" also come bearing serious hooks. That mixture of postpunk unease and fluid bleep would've made Cold Cave fit right in on the early-80s Factory Records roster alongside Section 25 or the Durutti Column.

Eisold started the project solo, but Cold Cave has evolved to include other contributors, including Dominick Fernow, who makes unsettling electronic noise as Prurient, and Caralee McElroy, who left Xiu Xiu in May.]