GUV is back! Today the long-running, ever-changing, and reliably fantastic project of guitar pop extraordinaire, Ben Cook, has returned with the announcement of his new studio album “Warmer Than Gold” arriving on January 30th, 2026, via Run For Cover Records.
“Warmer Than Gold” marks the start of a distinctly new chapter for GUV, taking the bulletproof hooks of his jangly past work and merging them with a dose of danceable breakbeats and swirling guitar textures. To celebrate the announcement, GUV has shared the record’s lead single “Let Your Hands Go” a vibrant cut of kaleidoscopic guitars and pulsating beats that wouldn’t sound out of place on Top of The Pops circa 1990.
“Warmer Than Gold” was made with the help of an all-star cast of creatives, including contributions from James Matthew Seven, Darcy Baylis, Hatchie, Meg Mills of Turnstile, and many more. It’s a record of unstoppable musical motion, effortlessly blending elements of Britpop, baggy, classic indie pop, and first wave shoegaze through Cook’s unique lens.
The result is an album that feels in conversation with the entirety of his musical journey—a set of songs whose roots go all the way back to his childhood growing up in between Toronto and England, and travel through his prolific years as Young Guv (“I’m not so young anymore, three letter band names are cool, and I’m tired of being mistaken as a rapper”, he says of the name adjustment), arriving in the present with perhaps the best work of his career.
Pre-order & pre-save “Warmer Than Gold” here.
Tracklist:
1. Let Your Hands Go
2. Blue Jade
3. Warmer Than Gold
4. Thorns in My Heart
5. Out of This Place
6. Chasin’ Luv
7. Seaside Story
8. Oscillating
9. Hello Miss Blue
10. Never Should Have Said
11. Crash Down Feeling
12. September Grey
Weblinks:
www.instagram.com/youngguv
guvofficial.bandcamp.com
