Cherish the Light Years

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Cherish the Light Years
CherishtheLightYears.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 5, 2011
RecordedOctober–November 2010
Studio Electric Lady Studios, Plantain Studios, Stratosphere Sound, and Soundtrack Studios, New York City
Genre Dark wave, synthpop
Length40:35
Label Matador
Producer Chris Coady
Cold Cave chronology
Love Comes Close
(2009)
Cherish the Light Years
(2011)
Full Cold Moon
(2014)
Singles from Cherish the Light Years
  1. "The Great Pan Is Dead"
    Released: February 4, 2011
  2. "Villains of the Moon"
    Released: May 16, 2011
  3. "Confetti"
    Released: April 27, 2012

Cherish the Light Years is the second studio album from the American band Cold Cave, released in April 2011 on Matador Records.

Contents

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork (7.7/10) [1]
PopMatters (7/10) [2]
Drowned in Sound (4/10) [3]
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Clash Magazine (8/10) [6]
The A.V. Club (B) [7]
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Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Consequence of Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
NME (7/10) [11]

Release and reception

Cherish the Light Years was released on April 5, 2011. The album was released by Matador Records on 12" vinyl, CD, and Digital formats. iTunes features an iTunes LP digital download which features an exclusive track, lyrics, and photos.

The album currently holds a 71 out of 100 rating on Metacritic. The score was based on reviews from 26 critics with 20 of the reviews being positive, 4 mixed, and 2 negative. [12]

In a positive review from Pitchfork, Mark Richardson writes "Cherish has the feel of a breakthrough, and Wes Eisold comes across as an artist with a vision that will resonate with a larger audience." [1]

Michael Wheeler, writer for Drowned in Sound writes in a negative review, "What happened is the only thing I can think throughout the first few listens of Cold Cave’s second album, with every subsequent spin less an opportunity to further digest than an effort to double-check if things really are as palpably awful as they seemed the last listen around." [3]

Track listing

  1. "The Great Pan Is Dead" - 4:06
  2. "Pacing Around the Church" - 3:26
  3. "Confetti" - 5:37
  4. "Catacombs" - 3:22
  5. "Underworld USA" - 4:59
  6. "Icons of Summer" - 5:50
  7. "Alchemy And You" - 3:28
  8. "Burning Sage" - 4:03
  9. "Villains of the Moon" - 5:44
  10. "Our Tears Help the Flowers Grow" - 4:19 (iTunes exclusive track)

Personnel

All songs were written by Wesley Eisold except for "Underworld USA" and "Catacombs" which were written by Eisold and Sean Martin.

Band personnel

Technical personnel

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