Cold Cave band leader Wes Eisold explains: “On the last Cold Cave tour, a new friend gave me a mix cd and this is my return, though I wanted to share it with you too. Made with you in mind, Songs for the summer indoors against the exhaustion of traffic outside.” If you’re expecting suffocating [...]

This Sebastian Mlynarski-directed, “You can go anywhere you want / but you’re here”-themed video for Cherish The Light Years closer “Villains Of The Moon” mixes a shiny full-band performance of the doomed boy/girl harmonizer with moments of Wesley Eisold, hood up, wandering by his lonesome.Cheris...

Cherish The Light Years‘ second single, the romantic, guitar-lined duet “Villains Of The Moon,” is the perfect closer to an album that starts with an upswinging anthem like “The Great Pan Is Dead,” and keeps on going … If you haven’t heard onetime BTW Cold Cave’s sec...

Long-ago BTW Cold Cave’s excellent second proper full-length Cherish The Light Years opens with “The Great Pan Is Dead,” one of 2011’s more arresting tracks. Moving outside the DIY bedroom of Cremations and Love Comes Close, the nine-song collection was recorded with Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The...

Long-ago dark-synth BTW Cold Cave’s “Life Magazine” is no stranger to the advertising realm: Around the holidays Love Comes Close’s poppiest moment ended up in a regularly aired Radio Shack spot. Now, after being remixed by handfuls of hands, it’s resurfaced in this Verizon ad.If you’ve...