RIYL The Charlatans, Primal Scream, Chapterhouse, The Field Mice. New Lp ‘Warmer Than Gold’ due out 01/30 via Run For Cover Records. North American Tour w/ Spiritual Cramp, Imploders.

The long-running, ever-changing, and reliably fantastic project of songwriter extraordinaire, Ben Cook is gearing up for the release of his upcoming album and he’s kicking off the new year with a cut of perfect indie pop: ‘Chasin’ Luv’. LP is an evolution in Cook‘s ultra-hooky guitar pop. Earlier singles ‘Warmer Than Gold’ and ‘Let Your Hands Go’ leaned into danceable beats and dreamy guitar textures and now the new one shows that GUV still has plenty of effervescent jangle and scrappy C86 charm in his sound. Cook discussed the track saying: “it was the last song written for the record. We wanted something immediate, an instant hit in the vein of early Primal Scream, and to bring the jangle that was missing from the record, but always present in the older GUV stuff. Noah, Gavel, Matt, and I wrote and tracked it in about 20 minutes. Corey Rose from Color Green came by and laid down her drums in a single take. After everyone left, I worked out the vocals just as quickly. Everything on the song is one take, and from start to finish it was written and recorded in under an hour. It’s my favorite and the best GUV song ever made.”

‘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

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