I'Ll Drown On This Earth

Description

The shoegaze band Cold Gawd, hailing from Southern California, is back on Dais Records with their second and most expansive suite of overwhelming bliss: I'll Drown On This Earth. From the opening track, the album unleashes itself in what lead singer and songwriter Matthew Wainwright describes as "full throttle": holding nothing back, wasting no time. A perfect storm of distortion and dream pop, cracked love songs wrapped in swooning walls of noise. A perfect storm of distortion and dream pop, cracked love songs wrapped in swooning walls of noise. As with God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here (2022), Cold Gawd's contemporary vision of shoegaze manifests intriguingly in exceptional moments, such as the plush, swirling reverie of "Tappan," or the slow, vaporous downtempo of "Nudism." Their muse is as alive as it is varied, ranging from Loveless to Drake, encompassing post-hardcore and Beach House. The album evocatively captures Cold Gawd's expanding canon, dense with riffs and delights, escape and revelation, channeled through stacked amps and hidden powers. For fans of trauma ray, Slowdive, my bloody valentine, Deftones, Beach House, Nothing, The Jesus and the Mary Chain, Whirr, Solange, Luster, Kraus, Mareux.