Love Comes Close

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Love Comes Close
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Studio album by
Cold Cave
ReleasedNovember 3, 2009 (2009-11-03)
Recorded2009
Genre Synth-pop, dark wave
Length31:24
Label Heartworm, Matador
Producer Wesley Eisold
Cold Cave chronology
Easel and Ruby
(2009)		Love Comes Close
(2009)		Stars Explode
(2010)

Love Comes Close is the first album from the American Darkwave band Cold Cave, released in November 2009 on Matador Records.

Contents

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Pitchfork (7.6/10) [2]
PopMatters (6/10) [3]
Drowned in Sound (7/10) [4]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Now Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Love Comes Close was released on November 3, 2009, by Matador Records, on 12" vinyl, CD, and Digital formats. On Metacritic it has a rating of 69 out of 100 based on reviews from 10 critics. [7]

Pitchfork 's Zach Kelly gave Love Comes Close a positive review with a score of 7.6. He describes singer Wesley Eisold's voice as a "devilish baritone channeling the vocal reticence of Ian Curtis one moment and the yearning of The National's Matt Berninger the next." [2]

In a mixed review from PopMatters , Matthew Collins said, "Love Comes Close shows some potential for artist growth with a little more seasoned songwriting." [3]

The track "Life Magazine" was used in a 2009 RadioShack commercial, [8] and as a soundtrack in the Konami game Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 .

Track listing

  1. "Cebe and Me" – 3:43
  2. "Love Comes Close" – 4:26
  3. "Life Magazine" – 2:56
  4. "The Laurels of Erotomania" – 2:53
  5. "Heaven Was Full" – 3:43
  6. "The Trees Grew Emotions and Died" – 4:04
  7. "Hello Rats" – 1:49
  8. "Youth and Lust" – 4:01
  9. "I.C.D.K." – 3:49

Bonus tracks

  2. "Double Lives in Single Beds" – 2:46
  3. "Theme from Tomorrowland" – 4:44
  4. "Now That I'm in the Future" – 3:12

Personnel

Music

Recording and production [9]

Artwork and design [9]

References

  1. ↑ Phares, Heather. "Love Comes Close - Cold Cave". AllMusic. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Kelly, Zach. "Cold Cave: Love Comes Close". Pitchfork Media.
  3. 1 2 Collins, Matthew. "Cold Cave: Love Comes Close". PopMatters.
  4. ↑ Lukowski, Andrzej. "Cold Cave - Love Comes Close". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on February 6, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
  5. ↑ B., Owen. "Cold Cave - Love Comes Close". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ Bimm, Jordan. "Cold Cave". NOW Magazine. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Love Comes Close - Metacritic". Metacritic.
  8. ↑ Schnipper, Matthew. "Cold Cave Soundtrack a Radio Shack Commercial". The Fader.
  9. 1 2 3 Love Comes Close (Media notes). Cold Cave. Matador Records. 2009. CD digipack tray. OLE-913-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. ↑ Grandy, Eric (May 3, 2011). "Cold Cave: Oh My Goth". Seattle Weekly . Sound Publishing . Retrieved April 7, 2013.
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