RIYL The Charlatans, Primal Scream, Chapterhouse, The Field Mice. New album due out 01/30 via Run For Cover Records. North American tour dates w/ Spiritual Cramp, Imploders.

GUV (the long-running, ever-changing, and reliably fantastic project of guitar pop extraordinaire, Ben Cook) recently returned with the announcement of his upcoming album, ‘Warmer Than Gold’, arriving January 30th via Run For Cover Records. Cook is sharing the album’s effervescent second single and title track. It follows lead single ‘Let Your Hands Go’ and highlights the combination of untouchable hooks, danceable beats, and swirling guitar textures that defines this latest chapter for GUV. LP was made with the help of an all-star cast of creatives, including contributions from James Matthew Seven, Darcy Baylis, Hatchie, Meg Mills of Turnstile, and many more. It’s a record of unstoppable musical motion, effortlessly blending elements of Britpop, baggy, classic indie pop, and first wave shoegaze through Cook‘s unique lens. The result is an album that feels in conversation with the entirety of his musical journey—a set of songs whose roots go all the way back to his childhood growing up in between Toronto and England, and travel through his prolific years as Young Guv (“I’m not so young anymore, three letter band names are cool, and I’m tired of being mistaken as a rapper” he says of the name adjustment), arriving in the present with perhaps the best work of his career.

‘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

He has also announced a run of North American tour dates, including shows with Spiritual Cramp and Imploders in the winter. 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