Cold Gawd: I'll Drown On This Earth (clear purple) LP
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Southern California shoegaze squad Cold Gawd return to Dais for their second and most supreme suite yet of crushing downer bliss: "I'll Drown On This Earth". From the defiant scream that kicks off opening cut "Gorgeous", the album rips in what singer and principal songwriter Matthew Wainwright describes as "go for it" mode: holding back nothing, wasting no time. Although the bulk of the songs were written in 2022, recording sessions weren't booked until March of 2024, which allowed ample time to refine and distill the music's hooks, heaviness, and haze. The result is a perfect storm of distortion and dream pop, cracked love songs cloaked in swooning walls of noise. Theirs is a muse as vivid as it is varied, from "Loveless" to Drake, post-hardcore and Beach House. "I'll Drown On This Earth" evocatively captures the expanding canon of Cold Gawd, dense with riffs and raptures, escape and revelation, channeled from stacked amps and hidden powers.