RIYL The Charlatans, Primal Scream, Chapterhouse, The Field Mice. New album ‘Warmer Than Gold’ due out this Friday 01/30 via Run For Cover Records.

GUV (the long-running, ever-changing, and reliably fantastic project of songwriter extraordinaire, Ben Cook) is releasing his new album this Friday January 30th via Run For Cover Records. He’s sharing one more early single, the punchy shoegaze of ‘Blue Jade’. ‘Warmer Than Gold’ evolves Cook‘s hooky guitar pop in new directions. Earlier singles leaned into danceable beats, ‘Chasin’ Luv’ was a dose of C86 jangle, and now ‘Blue Jade’ smears GUV‘s hummable melodies with layers of old school shoegaze shine. Cook discussed the track saying:
“For this song, we were thinking about these last few years of the shoegaze wave alongside classic records by MBV and Chapterhouse, but with the aim of pushing it somewhere punk and more driving. The idea was to make it like a Blitz or Oi! record but bury it under a wall of guitars and texture. Most of the vocal melodies came together while the guitars were being tracked, quietly singing them into my phone. I took the instrumentals from the sessions at Max Epstein’s studio in LA back to London and recorded the vocals quickly in my uncle’s apartment, keeping it low so I wouldn’t disturb the neighbors.”

‘Warmer Than Gold’ tracklist:
1. Let Your Hands Go
2. Blue Jade
3. Warmer Than Gold
4. Thorns In My Heart
5. Out of This Place
6. Chasin’ Luv
7. Seaside Story
8. Oscillating
9. Hello Miss Blue
10. Never Should Have Said
11. Crash Down Feeling
12. September Grey

GUV also has a run of North American tour dates coming up ion early 2026, including shows with Spiritual Cramp and Imploders. See full itinerary below.

Upcoming Shows:
01/29 Los Angeles, CA @ Three of Clubs
01/31 Boston, MA @ Something In The Way Fest
02/12 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
02/13 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
02/15 Oakland, CA @ Stork Club
02/18 Reno, CA @ Holland Project
02/19 Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
02/20 Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge
02/21 Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt
02/26 New York, NY @ Elsewhere Zone One
02/27 Philadelphia, PA @ Nikki Lopez
02/28 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
03/05 Montreal, QC @ Foufs *
03/06 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *
03/07 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *
03/08 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *

* w/ Spiritual Cramp, Imploders

photo credit: Victoria Prestes