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Warmer Than Gold, the new album from Ben Cook’s project GUV, is a document of a life in music, a critical and celebratory travelogue that seeks to transcend the status-obsessed conditions of the contemporary world through big beats, big choruses, and distortion. It’s a record made on the go that makes sense anywhere. With its expanded sonic palette and emphasis on breakbeats, it ushers in the newest era of an artist who has never stopped growing.
Cook, who grew up moving between Toronto and England, boasts anglo bonafides that set him apart from the growing pack of hardcore kids in windbreakers and bowl cuts. “My grandmother helped invent the miniskirt in London in the 60's, my parents met in a squat in Brixton. My dad was the drug dealer, my mom the hippie runaway,” Cook explains. “Growing up, I had a little bit of a Bristol life, it was more like trip-hop and reggae vibes over there when I was young.” Two of the first shows he attended were Oasis and Neil Young. After the show, he remembers thinking, “Yeah, I'm gonna do music forever.” Not long after he discovered hardcore, it was off to the races, first with his band No Warning (who he continues to play with), then as a member of Fucked Up from 2007 to 2021, building a solo catalog: first as Young Governor, then Young Guv, and now GUV (“I'm not so young anymore, three letter band names are cool, and I'm tired of being mistaken for a rapper.”).
Cook, who grew up moving between Toronto and England, boasts anglo bonafides that set him apart from the growing pack of hardcore kids in windbreakers and bowl cuts. “My grandmother helped invent the miniskirt in London in the 60's, my parents met in a squat in Brixton. My dad was the drug dealer, my mom the hippie runaway,” Cook explains. “Growing up, I had a little bit of a Bristol life, it was more like trip-hop and reggae vibes over there when I was young.” Two of the first shows he attended were Oasis and Neil Young. After the show, he remembers thinking, “Yeah, I'm gonna do music forever.” Not long after he discovered hardcore, it was off to the races, first with his band No Warning (who he continues to play with), then as a member of Fucked Up from 2007 to 2021, building a solo catalog: first as Young Governor, then Young Guv, and now GUV (“I'm not so young anymore, three letter band names are cool, and I'm tired of being mistaken for a rapper.”).
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