Cold Cave

Cold Cave is an experimental synthpop group that formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 2005 and is now based in Manhattan. Cold Cave was founded by Wesley Eisold, former vocalist of several hardcore groups including Some Girls, American Nightmare, XO Skeletons, and Give Up the Ghost, and also the founder of publisher Heartworm Press. The group represents his first venture into instrumentation. Cold Cave started as a solo project. It now includes additional live members, Jennifer Clavin(Mika Miko), Guy Licatta, and Dominick Fernow (Prurient). After initial releases on Dais Records, Hospital Productions, What's Your Rupture?, and Heartworm Press, the group is currently signed to Matador Records who re-released their debut LP, Love Comes Close on November 3, 2009. Cold Cave was among the bands chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he is curating in May 2010 in Minehead, England. In February 2010, former Mika Miko frontwoman Jennifer Clavin officially joined Cold Cave, replacing Caralee McElroy, who had left Xiu Xiu to join Cold Cave the previous year.