August 21st, 2009
Cold Cave Signs To Matador, Embraces Change
Dunno if you’ve heard, but Philly’s own Cold Cave got signed by Matador Records earlier this week. First Kurt Vile, now Cold Cave — pretty soon Matador’s gonna have the entire Philly music scene on its roster! Via Matablog:
Over the past 18 months, we’ve encountered a series of maddeningly limited vinyl and cassette releases* from the fantastic Philadelphia outfit, Cold Cave. With records on Dais, Hospital Productions and What’s Your Rupture, Cold Cave effortlessly marry elements of experimental noise, sound collage and synth pop. Last month, they released their debut longplayer and one of the most exciting debut albums we’ve heard, ‘Love Comes Close’, on their own publishing house, Heartworm Press. Not surprisingly, it sold out immediately.
We are happy to announce that Matador will be re-releasing ‘Love Comes Close’ worldwide on November 3 as well as additional odds and ends to be announced shortly.
Pitchfork just posted an e-mail interview with Cold Cave main man Wesley Eisold, in which he talks about his curious musical transformation:
Pitchfork: You spent time in influential and high-profile hardcore bands like American Nightmare, Give Up the Ghost, and Some Girls. There’s a pretty huge aesthetic gulf between what you did with those bands and what you’re doing with Cold Cave. What brought about the transformation?
WE: I didn’t know how to play an instrument, and the songs I made were limited to ability. I think this is important for people at large to do, and this is the case in most of my inspirations. I don’t know why it took me so long to try– probably insecurity. I had been a part of bands before but had never written music. The music of Cold Cave is more similar in sound to the music that I was listening to in the past. I always felt a bit slighted with myself for not playing music I was listening to, which I feel was important in separating my past bands from others at the time. Everything is timing, and it felt like the time to try something new. Some of us change so drastically as people that we can’t even recognize ourselves a few years ago. I feel comfort in the freedom of change and the human ability to transform through thought into who we see ourselves as.
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