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Q MagazineMay 17, 2011He's not the first person to have exploited the uranium half-life of the '80s but on Confetti's doomy missile-silo clang and the brassy Robert Smith jive of Alchemy And You, he customises it smartly for a newly paranoid generation. [May 2011, p.112]
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Apr 26, 2011Mr. Eisold's voice has the certainty of Dave Gahan and the quiver of Robert Smith, and Cold Cave's music is deeply indebted to New Order and, in weaker spots, even has a touch of A Flock of Seagulls: the synths hit hard, vibrating at a bitter frequency, and the guitars are tuned to just this side of serrated jangle.
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UncutApr 13, 2011Cherish The Light Years is more accomplished, refashioning vintage Mute Records sounds into widescreen pop. [May 2011, p.80]
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Apr 5, 2011Cold Cave are not shooting for nuance; the tracks here all beg to be the highlights, striving for anthemic bliss without any modesty.
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Apr 5, 2011Cherish the Light Years is a breathless, versatile record from front to back, always oscillating between extreme shades of dark and light.
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Apr 4, 2011Reboots Scott Walker and the androgynous end of 90s Britpop into distinctive darkwave.
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Apr 4, 2011Simultaneously depressing and uplifting, evil and camp, it's an inspiring, majestic paradox of an album.
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Apr 4, 2011Cherish has the feel of a breakthrough, and Wes Eisold comes across as an artist with a vision that will resonate with a larger audience.
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Apr 5, 2011Wesley Eisold, the man behind Cold Cave, clearly sees his own synth-pop as part of a still-vital continuum. By that token, Cold Cave's sophomore album, Cherish The Light Years, absolutely teems.
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Apr 1, 2011The only real sore spot is Wes Eisold's overdramatic Robert Smith singing style -- his pain sounds fashionable and forced instead of penetrating and raw.
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May 16, 2011Swirling Euro-melodies reminiscent of Depeche Mode, thudding and shuddering synths, and his coolly quavering baritone mark "Burning Sage" and "Confetti" like a pox.
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Apr 7, 2011The end sensation is one of anticipation, to hear where Eisold goes from here, now that he has made the album he has worked his career for and it is ultimately underwhelming. Thus Cold Cave are stuck with another good album, and are hopefully an album away from a great one.
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Dec 9, 2011There is plenty to like on Cherish, from the unfailingly memorable songs to Eisold's winningly in-your-face vocal mannerisms.
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Under The RadarJun 8, 2011It doesn't feel like Eisold's ambitious vision's been fully realized just yet, but he comes damn close on this excellent record. [May 2011, p.83]
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May 24, 2011Skip the heavily lifting and split the record into smaller chunks, which makes it easier appreciate the songs for the obvious care that Eisold has put into them.
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Apr 26, 2011Turns out all that volume was just a distraction; like any self-respecting goth, all Eisold really wants to do is mope.
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Apr 7, 2011There's no shortage of macabre catch-phrases and hooky shout-a-longs, but if you haven't the patience for this much gloom, then the album's 40 minutes can drag in the middle.
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Apr 5, 2011The album's closer gives the final word on what happens when execution and vision come together for Cold Cave, a good case of the band's ever-developing grasp catching up with its outstretched reach.
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Apr 4, 2011Considering the scattered legacy that feeds the roots of this album, and the other OTT keyboard abusers of our times, some foolishness is only right and proper. Fortunately, there's some belting tunes to chew on too.
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Apr 18, 2011If this is your thing, you'll be happy (sad?) to hear that Eisold has done it again, and offers us yet another beautifully written and comprehensively detailed chapter in the endless book of self.
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MojoMay 17, 2011It's a shame Eisold has lost some of individuality, but you can't fault him for hook-fueled momentum. [May 2011, p.110]
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Apr 4, 2011Sometimes, too often, you start a band and it's good, but by the time anyone really cares, you've run out of interesting ideas and your live show is boring because you're burnt out and your record sounds like it was sponsored by Guitar Center.
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Apr 1, 2011Whatever the reason, this collection seems retrograde and oddly neutered, the chilly vulnerability of its inspirations recoded as muscular bombast.
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Apr 5, 2011Whilst everyone else continues to pelt fellow pastiche merchants White Lies with sticks and dried lumps of shit, I might unfortunately suggest Cherish The Light Years to be an equally deserving recipiant of your faecal ammunition.
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Nov 3, 2011Based on this evidence, Cold Cave is merely the New Coke of New Wave.
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Apr 7, 2011Having blown out and polished away all of the music's industrial grit, Eisold reveals himself to be little more than a meticulously researched, clinical New Order cover act.