Cold Gawd is a California shoegaze and post-hardcore band built around dense guitars, gauzy melody and a hard rhythmic push. The group returns August 28, 2026 with the six-song EP Glory2 via Dais Records.
Cold Gawd return with Glory2 , a six-song EP out August 28, 2026 via Dais Records. The record pushes the band’s muscular shoegaze and post-hardcore sound through panoramic guitars, pummeling grooves and the road-worn tension of lead single “Grease.”
Southern California shoegaze squad COLD GAWD return to Dais Records for their second and most supreme suite yet of crushing downer bliss: "I’ll Drown On This Earth", set for release on August 30th, 2024. Recorded in March 2024, the new album showcases their refined shoegaze style that captures both heaviness and haze, resulting in a perfect storm of distortion and dream pop, cracked love songs cloaked in swooning walls of noise. Lead single "All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name" is a perfect example and now available on all digital streaming platforms.
Cold Gawd, led by California-based multi-instrumentalist Matt Wainwright, crafts stormy shoegaze music with R&B influences. Their upcoming album, "God Get Me The F*** Out Of Here," recorded by Wainwright as a solo project, showcases layered guitar textures and introspective lyrics akin to a live band experience.
Cold Gawd will release their new EP Glory2 on August 28 via Dais Records. Crushing lead single and video for “Grease” from the forthcoming EP is streaming below.
Across 6 brand new tracks, Glory2 combines the band’s heavy shoegaze distortion, melodic atmosphere and driving post-hardcore rhythms. The EP brings forward the muscular distortion of their God Get Me The Fuck Out of Here LP (2022) and the lush production of I’ll Drown On This Earth (2024), and adapts them to a new era for the group.
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.