Cold Gawd have announced details for their Dais Records debut album, set for release on September 23rd. The group’s second collection, God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here, took shape in the winter of 2020 while multi-instrumentalist Matt Wainwright was working long solo shifts at a coffee shop in Chicago.
Fueled by dreams of returning to his hometown of Rancho Cucamonga and reconnecting with old friends from past hardcore bands, Wainright holed up with his coveted pink Jazzmaster, an array of FX pedals, and a laptop, and wrote the entire album in a month. In March of 2021 he made the move, heading back west to the Inland Empire, where he booked sessions with Gabe Largaespada at Open Ocean to track and mix.
The band have also shared the video for God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here‘s first single “Sweet Jesus Wept Shit“. Listen to the song and watch the video for it below:
Wainwright cites the thematic common ground between shoegaze and R&B as a central muse, both obsessively fixated on love, lust, and longing, in forms alternately grandiose and minor key. Lyrically, the album sways between oblique and desperate, yearning and resigned – with the exception of “Comfort Thug,” a brooding, largely improvised spoken word piece inspired by the notable lack of black musicians in shoegaze.
God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here artwork & tracklist:
1. Sweet Jesus Wept Shit
2. You Should Be Fine Down There
3. On the Pale Silver Sofa
4. Two Iris Prints
5. Comfort Thug
6. Gin
7. You the Well
8. Passing Through Opposite of What it Approaches