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YOUNG GUV ´III & IV´ 2xLP Vinyl
YOUNG GUV ´III & IV´ 2xLP
Run For Cover
In the spring of 2020, Ben Cook _ a.k.a. Young Governor, Young Guv, or just Guv _ was holed up in the New Mexico high desert, his U.S. tour having been abruptly covid-cancelled during a southwest swing. He and his bandmates were living moment to moment in something called an Earthship, a solar-rigged adobe structure sustainably constructed with, among other things, recycled bottles and tires. And out there in the serene vastness, as a short ride-it-out stint turned into a nine-month sojourn, Ben was writing music, slowly, little by little, mostly at night while the others slept. By the New Year, almost in spite of himself, he had created a new album, two new albums actually, and through the ordeal he was forever changed. In a place he never expected to be, under circumstances no one could have predicted, and in the face of physical isolation, emotional desolation, and existential dread, Ben created GUV III & IV, a collection of songs dedicated and testifying to the eternal healing power of love _ how to find it in the world, in others, and most importantly, in himself. Written in the New Mexico wilderness and produced in Los Angeles, the double album will finally be available in it's entirety this summer via Run For Cover. Young Guv's talent as a songwriter has been with us for a long time. From forming iconic hardcore act No Warning in 1998 to joining Toronto legends Fucked Up, Ben Cook started writing songs as Guv in 2008 between a slew of other projects that were ambitiously working to define the genres they operated in. When he first started working with Run For Cover in 2019, the plan was to release a single record - but with too many songs to turn away, the project expanded into his first double album, GUV I & II. GUV III & IV finds the same ambition and expertise in hit-making, but this time the individual records hone into specific parts of Guv's sonic palette. GUV III is full of iconic hooks, power-pop guitar riffs and dancable-rock songs, while GUV IV takes notes from psych rock, electro pop and Laurel Canyon jangle to make something that as a whole, can only be defined as definitively GUV
Track Listing:
A1. Couldn't Leave U If I Tried
A2. It's Only Dancin'
A3. Lo Lo Lonely
A4. Only Wanna See U Tonight
A5. Good Time
B1. Take Up All My Time
B2. But I Ain't Got U
B3. Same Old Fool
B4. She Don't Cry For Anyone
B5. Scam Likley
B6. April Of My Life
C1. Too Far Gone
C2. Change Your Mind
C3. Sign From God
C4. Overcome
C5. Love Me Don't Leave Me
D1. Cry 2 Sleep
D2. Cold In The Summer
D3. Maybe I Should Luv Somebody Else
D4. Helium
D5. Nervous Around U
D6. Nowhere At All
D7. Wind In My Blood
Pressing Info:
FIRST PRESS
100 - Neon Magenta
300 - Purple, Pink & Yellow Swirl
500 - Purple & Green Galaxy Swirl
700 - Yellow
RUN FOR COVER RECORDS
www.runforcoverrecords.com/
Imported by:
MERCHPIT
c/o Thomas Riechert
Stauffenbergallee 12 d
01099 Dresden
Deutschland
info@merchpit.com
Run For Cover
In the spring of 2020, Ben Cook _ a.k.a. Young Governor, Young Guv, or just Guv _ was holed up in the New Mexico high desert, his U.S. tour having been abruptly covid-cancelled during a southwest swing. He and his bandmates were living moment to moment in something called an Earthship, a solar-rigged adobe structure sustainably constructed with, among other things, recycled bottles and tires. And out there in the serene vastness, as a short ride-it-out stint turned into a nine-month sojourn, Ben was writing music, slowly, little by little, mostly at night while the others slept. By the New Year, almost in spite of himself, he had created a new album, two new albums actually, and through the ordeal he was forever changed. In a place he never expected to be, under circumstances no one could have predicted, and in the face of physical isolation, emotional desolation, and existential dread, Ben created GUV III & IV, a collection of songs dedicated and testifying to the eternal healing power of love _ how to find it in the world, in others, and most importantly, in himself. Written in the New Mexico wilderness and produced in Los Angeles, the double album will finally be available in it's entirety this summer via Run For Cover. Young Guv's talent as a songwriter has been with us for a long time. From forming iconic hardcore act No Warning in 1998 to joining Toronto legends Fucked Up, Ben Cook started writing songs as Guv in 2008 between a slew of other projects that were ambitiously working to define the genres they operated in. When he first started working with Run For Cover in 2019, the plan was to release a single record - but with too many songs to turn away, the project expanded into his first double album, GUV I & II. GUV III & IV finds the same ambition and expertise in hit-making, but this time the individual records hone into specific parts of Guv's sonic palette. GUV III is full of iconic hooks, power-pop guitar riffs and dancable-rock songs, while GUV IV takes notes from psych rock, electro pop and Laurel Canyon jangle to make something that as a whole, can only be defined as definitively GUV
Track Listing:
A1. Couldn't Leave U If I Tried
A2. It's Only Dancin'
A3. Lo Lo Lonely
A4. Only Wanna See U Tonight
A5. Good Time
B1. Take Up All My Time
B2. But I Ain't Got U
B3. Same Old Fool
B4. She Don't Cry For Anyone
B5. Scam Likley
B6. April Of My Life
C1. Too Far Gone
C2. Change Your Mind
C3. Sign From God
C4. Overcome
C5. Love Me Don't Leave Me
D1. Cry 2 Sleep
D2. Cold In The Summer
D3. Maybe I Should Luv Somebody Else
D4. Helium
D5. Nervous Around U
D6. Nowhere At All
D7. Wind In My Blood
Pressing Info:
FIRST PRESS
100 - Neon Magenta
300 - Purple, Pink & Yellow Swirl
500 - Purple & Green Galaxy Swirl
700 - Yellow
RUN FOR COVER RECORDS
www.runforcoverrecords.com/
Imported by:
MERCHPIT
c/o Thomas Riechert
Stauffenbergallee 12 d
01099 Dresden
Deutschland
info@merchpit.com