{"id":40673,"date":"2024-06-18T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40673"},"modified":"2024-06-17T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:08:19","slug":"cold-gawd-announce-sophomore-lp-ill-drown-on-this-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40673","title":{"rendered":"COLD GAWD announce sophomore LP\u00a0\u2018I\u2019ll Drown On This Earth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Southern California shoegaze squad\u00a0COLD GAWD\u00a0return to Dais for their second and most supreme suite yet of crushing downer bliss: \u2018I\u2019ll Drown On This Earth,\u2019 set for release\u00a0on August 30th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the start, the album rips in what singer and principal songwriter Matthew Wainwright describes as \u201cgo for it&#8221; mode;\u00a0holding back nothing, wasting no time\u2014 all killer, no filler. Although the bulk of the songs were written in 2022, recording sessions weren\u2019t booked until March of 2024, which allowed ample time to refine and distill the music\u2019s hooks, heaviness, and haze. The result is a perfect storm of distortion and dream pop, cracked love songs cloaked in swooning walls of noise.\u00a0 These sounds are on display on first single, <em>All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name<\/em> which arrives today.\u00a0 Wainwright comments, \u201c<em>What I\u2019m trying to say with this song and the whole record was best said by Victoria Legrand when she said to: &#8216;Trust in yourself and trust in the people that love because those are the people that matter most.&#8217;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/streak-link.com\/CAk3bSG09Les3FwFPQJ16f9Y\/https%3A%2F%2Fanotherside.createsend1.com%2Ft%2Fy-i-mydhtty-l-i%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name<\/a>\u201d via DSPs or via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NrsaMXaZeng?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Recorded at Paradise Recorders in Anaheim, CA with Colin Knight (of post-punk unit Object of Affection), Wainwright tracked the strings while Cameron Fonacier handled drums. The process was efficient and effective, sharpened by years of performance. The songs sound as dynamic as they do dialed-in, soaked into the bones of the players. The lyrics came last, written by Wainwright a week before recording. Moods of surreality, infatuation and melancholy flicker and fade within a fog of memory and reverb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As on 2022\u2019s\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/streak-link.com\/CAk3bSKHhwaQC0JtIgsHTBtI\/https%3A%2F%2Fanotherside.createsend1.com%2Ft%2Fy-i-mydhtty-l-k%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here<\/a>,\u2019 COLD GAWD\u2019s classic but contemporary vision of shoegaze manifests intriguingly in outlier moments. Theirs is a muse as vivid as it is varied, from \u201cLoveless\u201d to Drake to post-hardcore to Beach House.\u00a0\u2018I\u2019ll Drown On This Earth\u2019\u00a0evocatively captures the expanding canon of\u00a0COLD GAWD, dense with riffs and raptures, escape and revelation, channeled from stacked amps and hidden powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7253C10F-584A-4C39-A52C-0B20C1BFB6D4.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7253C10F-584A-4C39-A52C-0B20C1BFB6D4.jpeg?resize=900%2C900\" alt=\"COLD GAWD I\u2019ll Drown On This Earth cover artwork \" class=\"wp-image-40675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7253C10F-584A-4C39-A52C-0B20C1BFB6D4.jpeg?w=900 900w, 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