{"id":10076,"date":"2011-03-30T21:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10076"},"modified":"2011-04-04T22:13:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T22:13:32","slug":"swn-fluxrad-present-cold-cave-man-without-country-clwb-ifor-bach-cardiff-02-04-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/swn-fluxrad-present-cold-cave-man-without-country-clwb-ifor-bach-cardiff-02-04-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Swn &#038; Flux=Rad present Cold Cave \/ Man Without Country : Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff : 02.04.11"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10101\" href=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/swn-fluxrad-present-cold-cave-man-without-country-clwb-ifor-bach-cardiff-02-04-11\/attachment\/cold-cave\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10101\" title=\"Cold Cave\" src=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollectivewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Cold-Cave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Cold-Cave.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Cold-Cave-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">To carry off a musical reinvention, especially one with a pronounced shift into the mainstream, never comes without problems. \u00a0Haters will hate, and even if it&#8217;s just a handful of disillusioned first-wave fans and the odd smirking onlooker (we&#8217;ve all been there, it&#8217;s fun, don&#8217;t deny it) a gear-change into more accessible territory needs a certain chutzpah and confidence in the material to come off right. \u00a0Enter COLD CAVE. \u00a0Wesley Eisold&#8217;s past in hardcore\/screamo outfits Give Up The Ghost and Some Girls could hardly have been a more unlikely progenitor to 2009&#8217;s <em>Love Comes Close<\/em>, a glorious, glacial debut of EBM-accented synthpop which drew inspiration from Joy Division, the Human League, early Ministry and any number of glum Depeche Mode-fixated nihilists with a penchant for hi-energy disco thrills. \u00a0What set it apart from so much blank-eyed 80s-fixated revivalism was its shiny black pop core, made all the more surprising given the presence of collaborators from Prurient and Xiu Xiu. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">New album <em>Cherish The Light Years<\/em>, the reason for this UK jaunt, dares to up the stakes still further; the choruses are huge, the guitars overdriven, the rhythms more frenetic than anything on its predecessor. \u00a0The likes of &#8216;The Great Pan Is Dead&#8217; are the sort of glossy, widescreen electro-pop anthems that indie makeweights like Bloc Party tried on for size; but sleek, lustrous and darkly sexy where those bands came off lumpen and gauche.  With the new touring line-up featuring another implausible guest (ex-Mika Miko vocalist Jennifer Clavin), expect a chilly, strobe-lit intensity but watch for the glowing, romantic pop at its heart. <\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Cold Cave \/ Man Without Country<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby Street, Cardiff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18+|\u00a07:30pm | \u00a37.50 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketweb.co.uk\/user\/?region=gb_wales&amp;query=detail&amp;event=437637\">buy tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swnfest.com\/\">www.swnfest.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/coldcave\">www.myspace.com\/coldcave<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manwithoutcountry.com\/\">www.manwithoutcountry.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To carry off a musical reinvention, especially one with a pronounced shift into the mainstream, never comes without problems. \u00a0Haters will hate, and even if it&#8217;s just a handful of disillusioned first-wave fans and the odd smirking onlooker (we&#8217;ve all been there, it&#8217;s fun, don&#8217;t deny it) a gear-change into more accessible territory needs a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[524,1909,1083,829,498],"class_list":["post-10076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preview","tag-clwb-ifor-bach","tag-cold-cave","tag-fluxrad","tag-man-without-country","tag-swn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}