Eisold about the album in an interview with New Noise Magazine: “This band
has always been a learning process and transformative. This album is special to us
because it’s the first time a single body of work has been truly collaborative in that Amy,
and I made all music, lyrics, and vocals together. I’ve never done that before and have
never had any input on vocals or lyrics in my past. Passion Depression is about the
polarity of modern-dystopia.
It’s the struggle for love in the land of strife! How do we stay humane and caring amongst the onslaught of injustice and threat? think it’s a theme that’s here to stay. When I listened back to the album after finishing it, that’s exactly what it sounded like. The little cherubs in us want to be beautiful but the scenery of the garden is very hard to trust. And I don’t want to give in. Whether it be to laziness or sedation or crippling, exhaustive isolation. It’s always a love story with Cold Cave. This one is about holding on to it when the grip gets tough.”
TUTV: What your ears get are 8 dark-synth-wave strokes by numbers. Mind you,
tremendously infectious numbers. Both familiar and retro, both spellbinding and
hypnotic. But why change a magnetic success formula.
All titillating tunes are spot-on with the New Order-esque She Reigns Down, Blackberries
and Hourglass as poppy highlights. Overall, enough material for your upcoming Halloween party at your local graveyard. Passion Depression is about the eternal fight of despair vs hope. CC offers icy, black-and-white candy for all goth/darkwave fans out there, dancing around in their batcaves. Join them.
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
Band: ZEBEDEE
Who: International neo-psych and desert rock-inspired outfit
creating something of their own, with a plethora of ruckus Sabbath
riffs on the fingertips and psycho billy licks on the lips.
Single: FAST EDEE
It sees the band expand their sonic universe with booming
drums, smooth guitar riffs and honest, contemplative lyricism.
TUTV: Dazzling intensity and fiery vocals grab you by the throat from the get-go.
This astonishingly groovy ride gets under your skin without asking. Sassy swagger.
Striking stroke.
TUTV: This could easily be a piece from Canadian post-hardcore loudmouths Fucked Up‘s newest album. No rest for the wicked. According to my ears, The Battery Farm operate in
a 2024 wasteland where surreality becomes reality. OM-G, this is a formidable jam.
Mark Harris (frontman): “Written from the perspective of someone longing for another
and the cruelty of this person not letting go, ‘The TV’s Snowing’ emulates how this person lives helplessly in limbo, with nights stretched further and afar. Our love of Bon Iver really influenced the atmosphere of the production, and it’s one of our proudest creations.”
TUTV: A perturbed reflection with Harris‘ anxious vocals lifting this impassioned
tragedy to a bone-chilling level. It’s a feverish tour de force that keeps on reverberating after its volcanic finale. Splendid.
Artist: KAKTUS EINARSSON Who: Singer-songwriter from Reykjavík (Finland) who opened up
with his band Fufanu, opened hometown shows for Radiohead and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Also supported Blur in Hyde Park, and playing
at big festivals.
His debut solo album ‘Kick The Ladder’ was released in 2021.
His second one ‘Lobster Coda’ will be launched on October 25th.
TUTV: White Burn starts as a mellow candlelight meditation, dreamy and starry-eyed,
and evolves around the 2-minute mark into a soulful and touchy-feely pop symphony. Beautifully orchestrated and arranged with crystalline vocals on top of it.
A new piece from their first album in 9 years. Born Horses comes out on September 6th.
A Bird Of No Address is a starry-eyed musing, a magnific symphony with classical piano play, sensitive orchestrations, and Donahue‘s romantic vocals. Bewitching, just bewitching.
TUTV: Expect a multi-layered soundscape with a bewitching resonance,
going on and on, creating a trance-like magnetism you can’t and don’t want
to escape from. Pretty special. Don’t miss Upupayāma‘s fantasy in motion.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
16 May 2024
BLACKBERRIES is already this year’s 3rd single by otherworldly LA synth-Goth-wave act COLD CAVE, the brainchild of Wesley Eisold. It follows chill out piece She Reigns Down
and supersonic rocket Shadow Dance.
Sonically Blackberries is a trippy Depeche Mode-like synth-pop
reverie, as if CC left their basement for a walk in the park.
The track comes along with the news that CC will tour Mexico and South America soon. Eisold: “Now felt like the right time to release what we create as we create it. Sometimes, touring takes center stage, and we miss the thrill of creativity.”
COLD CAVE, the dark-synth-wave project of Virginia artist Wesley Eisold
toured with goth giants Depeche Mode and The Cult the past couple of years.
He’s not the most productive musician on this planet. Besides dropping
a single now and then, CC only has fabricated 2 LPs in 17 years.
But, wait, here’s another single, named SHE REIGN DOWN. Dark-synth-wave by numbers. It sounds as if this piece was written in the 80s. Icy and shadowy, but also melodious and addictive, with Eisold‘s eerie vocals in the middle.
Los Angeles’ darkwave act COLD CAVE, the brainchild of Wesley Eisold are ready for some live action (tour dates below).
Ahead of it they shared their terrifically bouncy cover of GODSTAR.
A 1985 PSYCHIC TV (British influential electro-dance legends conducted by
the late great Genesis P-Orridge) classic about the late blonde Rolling Stones’
God Brian Jones.
Band: COLD CAVE (Virginia Beach) Who: Main man Wesley Eisold and Caralee McElroy Active since 1995 / So far 2 longplayers and
several EPs/mini albums
New mini album: FATE IN SEVEN LESSONS Eisold hasn’t wanted to owe records to labels, and he
hasn’t had much faith in the primacy of the album as
a form. He’s talked about watching friends being trapped “based on an outdated idea of a record cycle.”
Stereogum says: “All through Fate In Seven Lessons, Eisold and Lee sing
about human connection as a kind of impossible miracle: “A seething atheist
prayed for an angel.” The lyrics on the record concern past degradations and
the idea that giving yourself over to someone else, to building something else,
can be salvation… It’s the first Cold Cave album that’s truly exploded with joy.
If you can make truly happy music and remain goth, then you know it’s real.”
Turn Up The Volume: Like if British electro-pop champions
New Order entered cold/dark wave territory – certainly on lead
single ‘Night Light’. Cold Cave sound, eh, like Cold Cave. Nightmarish
beats/synths/drums, winding melodies, bombastic orchestrations
and Wesley Eisold‘s familiar echoing baritone voice. Nothing new but
nothing bad either.
5 new firecrackers to boost your favorite 48 hours…
‘Psalm 23’ by COLD CAVE (L.A./New York)
This darksome Krautrock groove gets under your skin from the get-go and moves like a
nasty serpent. From the nightmare rockers’ new EP Fate In Seven Lessons out 11 June.
Press play…
‘Under The Waves’ by FUZZY LIGHTS (Cambridge, UK)
The song deals with the devastation of coral reefs, ocean resources, and our natural world. It’s a multi-waves-layered cruise, with featherlight romantic vocals à la The Sundays‘ lovely vox Harriet Wheeler, violin flashes, gusty drums and a charged guitar finale. This is a band that cares about nature and their music. From the band’s new 4th album Buriels.
Enjoy here…
‘The Garden’ by 3 LITTLE WOLVES (Birmingham)
Sounds like a little symphonic psych-rock trip starting with a rambling drum riff
that comes and goes and ghostly vocals floating all over it. Sonic spiritually, that
grows on you after a couple of plays.
Here’s why…
. ‘Born 2 Boogie’ by SUNSHINE & THE BLUE MOON
Some are born to be wild, some are born 2 boogie as did the late great Marc Bolan
(T. Rex) back in the 70s and these Canadians know how to move and groove too. Glorious organ, glorious flow, glorious swagger, glorious vocals. From their upcoming album, out 25th June.
Turn it up right here…
‘How Dare You Want More’ by BLEACHERS (NYC) Jack Antonoff and his band premiered this new track on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show.
A tremendously uptight tune with a shake & swing sax climax. From upcoming album Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night.
To honor IAN CURTIS, the late iconic and troubled frontman of Manchester’s legends JOY DIVISION, who took his own life 40 years ago, on 18 May 1980, Los Angeles’ post-
punk act COLD CAVE teamed up with the omnipresent MARK LANEGAN. As renowned connoisseurs of dark Goth-like nightmares themselves, this combo is just perfect for a Curtis tribute.
They picked ISOLATION to cover. Probably the most catchy Joy Division track, but also
a bleak self-reflection of low esteem by the band’s regretted protagonist. I’m pretty sure their choice refers also to the surreal lockdown days we all experience. The Cold Cave / Lanegan rendition is a respectful homage with an equally buzzing drive – rousing bass and glimmering synths – and heavyhearted vocals.
Mother I tried please believe me,
I’m doing the best that I can.
I’m ashamed of the things I’ve been put through,
I’m ashamed of the person I am.
