California shoegaze band Cold Gawd have released their new EP Glory2 today via Dais Records and shared a new music video for “Steel.”
The five-song EP builds on the muscular distortion of 2022’s God Get Me The Fuck Out of Here and the more lush production of 2024’s I’ll Drown On This Earth, while pushing the band into some new territory. Across Glory2, Cold Gawd pair their trademark blown-out guitars and pummeling grooves with 808s, glitchy breakbeats, synth textures and influences that range from Beach House and DIIV to BROCKHAMPTON and Tigers Jaw.
Lyrically, the record grew out of the exhaustion and distance that followed the band’s extensive touring cycle in 2025. Rather than functioning simply as a record about life on the road, Glory2 centers on the frustration, longing and emotional separation that can come with being away from home.
“Steel” arrives as one of the EP’s heavier moments, driven by a desire to break through what the press release describes as a figurative “steel plate” lodged in the narrator’s head. The EP closes on a more reflective note with “Glory,” written for frontman Matthew Wainwright’s late family dog Sophie, and ends the record with a sense of resolution rather than anger.
