19 October 2024

Act: COLD CAVE
Who: Otherworldly LA synth-Goth-wave project.
The brainchild of Wesley Eisold.

New album: PASSION DEPRESSION
Only their 3rd in a long career.

New album artwork

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.

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