COLD CAVE - LOVE COMES CLOSE (um dos melhores 2009:)

COLD CAVE - LOVE COMES CLOSE
(HEARTWORM / MATADOR)





Love Comes Close, Cold Cave's first official album (following the static-coated Cremation compilation from earlier in the year) is amazing. It's amazing because everything I expected it to be - a sheet white trip through a ghost house of electrical circuits and grubby mirrors - it isn't. But mostly it's just amazing because it's one of the best pop albums of the year. Sure, 'Life Magazine' starts off sounding like the ghost of Depeche Mode rising from a drowning pool of static, but the female vocals are straight out of Heaven, and the ear-worm burrowing chorus is something else. In fact, with its cut up and echoed vocals, tempo changes and closing refrain it's not a million miles away from something off this year's Discovery album [see entry 5 - Ed].



'The Laurels of Erotomania' is even brasher, with comically bouncy bass and cheap Game Gear melodies, while the album's title track lets the synths take a backseat to an 80s radio guitar line and chorus built on vocal harmonies. But despite its direction being a shock, Love Comes Close feels natural: it's still very dark, and very Cold Cave. 'The Trees Grew Emotions and Died' is as power violence as it is power pop, 'I.C.D.K''s breakdown sounds like the instruments are being tortured, there are tracks called 'Heaven Was Full' and 'Hello Rats', and lyrics about the synthetic world and future ex-girlfriends. In the early 90s, industrial legends Swans turned their hands to pop music and made some of the best records of all time. In 2009 Cold Cave did the same and made one of the best of the year. [Tom Lea]


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