Listening to… Cold Cave

Cold Cave, Cherish the Light Years. It’s hardly a new sound—it’s that heavy fast-yet-bloated ‘80s dark-pop, with the low vocals and the supplementary synths—but in today’s lo-fi and throwback-rock world it comes across as meaningless and offputtingly arrogant. I feel as if someone is trying to shove me around a nightclub against my will.