Cold Gawd - God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here - VINYL LP

Cold Gawd is the flag under which California-based multi-instrumentalist Matt Wainwright creates stormy, wounded shoegaze music born of open tunings and R&B melodies. His second collection, God Get Me The F**k Out Of Here, took shape in the winter of 2020 while 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.Despite recording every instrument himself, the results have the lived-in feel of a practiced live band (which Cold Gawd now are, fleshed into a six-piece). Cascading walls of guitar churn, surge, and ripple, framed by sunken rhythms and Wainright's distant, defeated voice, veiled in violet haze. He 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 InchComfort Thug,Inch a brooding, largely improvised spoken word piece inspired by the notable lack of black musicians in shoegaze.Cold Gawd is here to change that. God Get Me The F**k Out Of Here channels malaise and melancholy into gauzy, galvanized anthems of escape, change, and introspection. The crushing closing cut, InchPassing Through the Opposite of What It Approaches,Inch heaves and hovers like looming storm clouds, beneath which Wainright sings (and bandmate Arturo Ramirez screams) as close to a mission statement as the album offers Inchleave what you know / and get grown / ever

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 InchGorgeous,Inch the album rips in what singer and principal songwriter Matthew Wainwright describes as Inchgo for itInch 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.Recorded at Paradise Recorders in Anaheim, California 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. Anthemic headbangers like InchPortland,Inch InchAll My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name,Inch and InchMalibu Beach HouseInch 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 (InchI can hear the blood in my fingers / nothing tunes out / the world's too loudInch), infatuation (InchI will follow / everywhere you go / any way to feel / how you glowInch), and melancholy (InchGod kept me around / for no good reasonInch) flicker and fade within a fog of memory and reverb.As on 2022's 'God Get Me The F**k Out Of Here', Cold Gawd's contemporary vision of shoegaze manifests intriguingly in outlier moments, like the hushed, whirlpool reverie of InchTappan,Inch or the vaporous, slow-grind downtempo of InchNudismInch (complete with regal piano outro). Theirs is a muse as vivid as it is varied, from Loveless, to Drake, post

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 InchGorgeous,Inch the album rips in what singer and principal songwriter Matthew Wainwright describes as Inchgo for itInch 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.Recorded at Paradise Recorders in Anaheim, California 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. Anthemic headbangers like InchPortland,Inch InchAll My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name,Inch and InchMalibu Beach HouseInch 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 (InchI can hear the blood in my fingers / nothing tunes out / the world's too loudInch), infatuation (InchI will follow / everywhere you go / any way to feel / how you glowInch), and melancholy (InchGod kept me around / for no good reasonInch) flicker and fade within a fog of memory and reverb.As on 2022's 'God Get Me The F**k Out Of Here', Cold Gawd's contemporary vision of shoegaze manifests intriguingly in outlier moments, like the hushed, whirlpool reverie of InchTappan,Inch or the vaporous, slow-grind downtempo of InchNudismInch (complete with regal piano outro). Theirs is a muse as vivid as it is varied, from Loveless, to Drake, post