Southern California shoegaze squad COLD GAWD released their second and most supreme suite yet of crushing downer bliss, I’ll Drown On This Earth, last August on Dais Records. The album is a perfect storm of distortion and dreampop, cracked love songs cloaked in swooning walls of noise.
Following the album’s release, COLD GAWD went on to do a run of shows to close out 2024 and now they’ve announced a U.S. tour for summer of 2025— on the road with Belgium’s New Moon. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 25.
COLD GAWD’s classic but contemporary vision of shoegaze manifests intriguingly in outlier moments; theirs is a muse as vivid as it is varied. I’ll Drown On This Earth evocatively captures the expanding canon of COLD GAWD, dense with riffs and raptures, escape and revelation, channeled from stacked amps and hidden powers. Don’t miss COLD GAWD on the road this summer.
COLD GAWD on tour with New Moon:
Jul. 22 Brooklyn, NY — The Woodshop
Jul. 23 Richmond, VA — The Camel
Jul. 24 Washington, DC — Songbyrd Music House
Jul. 27 Chicago, IL — Cobra Lounge
Jul. 29 St. Louis, MO — The Sink Hole
Jul. 30 Kansas City, MO — The Record Bar
Jul. 31 Oklahoma City, OK — Resonant Head
Aug. 01 Denton, TX — Rubber Gloves
Aug. 02 Austin, TX — Come and Take It
Aug. 03 San Antonio, TX — Paper Tiger
Aug. 06 Mesa, AZ — The Nile
Aug. 07 San Diego, CA — Soda Bar
Aug. 08 Los Angeles, CA — The Echo
Aug. 09 San Francisco, CA — Thee Parkside
