Cold Gawd “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name”

Cold Gawd "All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name"
Cold Gawd

Southern California shoegaze squad Cold Gawd have shared their new single “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name“.

The track serves as the lead single of their upcoming album “Ill Drown On This Earth“, set for release on August 30th via Dais Records. Pre-order your copy here

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 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.

From the start, the album rips in what singer and principal songwriter Matthew Wainwright describes as “go for it” mode; holding back nothing, wasting no time— all killer, no filler. 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 distil 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.  These sounds are on display on the first single.

Take a listen below.

I’ll Drown On This Earth tracklist:

  1. Gorgeous
  2. Portland
  3. All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name
  4. Duchamp
  5. Malibu
  6. Tappan
  7. Nudism
  8. Bird in Space

Photo credit: Liam Wallis