Fortunately for us Heartworm decided to make the LP of "Love Comes Close" one of the pre-order options on the Insound site. If you haven't taken advantage of Insound's pre-order deals before I would highly recommend keeping an eye out for them in the future. I like the deals mostly because you are guaranteed a record that would probably sell out in stores super quickly and they send you the album you pre-ordered in mp3 format on the release date. If you are obsessive about release dates like me than you can probably relate to the agony of knowing that a record you have been waiting for is sitting pretty in the new arrivals section of your favorite record store while your copy is in the mail somewhere. Getting the album you pre-ordered in mp3 format on release day will at least make the wait for it to arrive in the mail feel a little shorter.
Sweet deals aside, I have looked forward to all of Cold Cave's records so far which have been mostly 12 inch singles and I was excited to see what they would do with room to stretch on an LP. A handful of the tracks might look familiar from the most recent "Edsel and Ruby" EP and one more from "The Trees Grew Emotions and Died" EP but they all sound as if they belong together on the record, by no means is this a compilation record. My favorite track so far is "Youth and Lust" which reminds me of one of the more synth heavy tracks from New Order's "Power, Corruption and Lies". Another track I especially like is "Heaven Was Full" which kind of sounds like Gary Numan & the Tubeway Army in the best way possible. The addition of Caralee McElroy of Xiu-Xiu, who plays synths and sings, rounds out their sound making them sound much more like a fleshed out band. On their past records I always thought it sounded like writing traditional songs was backseat to experimentation and creating an atmosphere kind of like Blues Control does. I am not saying these bands sound anything alike, I just think that Cold Cave's early recordings have that in common with them. I am going to hold off on posting anything from this for now because you should all buy a copy from Heartworm. You can find a link to their site in our links section and you would be a fool for not checking them out. Aside from awesome records by Cold Cave, Prurient and Nisennenmondai they also release a ton of awesome printed material. I really enjoyed the recently released book "23" which is a collection of short pieces and art by a number of interesting and familiar voices such as Wes Eisold, Kid Kongo Powers and Mark McCoy. The book was compiled by Max G. Morton of Cold Cave who also includes ten new pieces of writing. Everything Heartworm has released so far has appeared to be painstakingly thought out and I think out of the multitude of things they are involved in there is at least something of interest for anyone.
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