Product Code: WET30284417
Original price was: $42.00.$25.20Current price is: $25.20.Love Comes Close is the debut full-length album by Cold Cave, released in November 2009. It builds on the synthpop and darkwave terrain of their prior EPs, immersing listeners in icy, atmospheric electronic landscapes, dramatic moody hooks and elegiac pop sensibility. The album balances stark, minimalist beats and moody textures with melodic clarity, highlighting Wesley Eisolds deep baritone voice delivering lines of longing, detachment and romantic darkness.
Across tracks like Cebe and Me, Love Comes Close, and Life Magazine, the production shifts between sparse, cold pulses and richer sonic layeringsometimes embracing abrasive noise, other times leaning into chorused mystery. While the album is firmly rooted in homage to 1980s new wave and post-punk influences, it feels intentional in its darkness rather than derivative. The result is a work that thrives on tension, creating spaces where emotion resonates in the margins of silence and synthetic shimmer.
Reviews
Moody synth-poppers from Philly make an impressive full-length debut. Pitchfork
[Its] a world of hard electronic beats and anthemic, minor-key melodies of feelings expressed in cryptic verse a hard carapace that simultaneously reveals and protects the emotional vulnerability within. The Quietus
Love Comes Close possesses a robust charm, born from layered, lyrical synth lines and hypnotic beats. The Line of Best Fit
The whiff of dry ice may lurk perceptibly but Love Comes Close is a cut above mere parody Eisolds pop sensibilities his love of more melodious inspirations such as The Human League and (especially) New Order shines through. The Skinny
The homogeneity and a dourness a repetitiveness that saps but elegant pop songs nonetheless. Drowned in Sound
A1 Cebe And Me
A2 Love Comes Close
A3 Life Magazine
A4 The Laurels Of Erotomania
A5 Heaven Was Full
B1 The Trees Grew Emotions And Died
B2 Hello Rats
B3 Youth And Lust
B4 I.C.D.K.
