photo by James Grossi
COLD GAWD’s classic but contemporary vision of shoegaze manifests intriguingly in outlier moments; theirs is a muse as vivid as it is varied. Their second and most supreme suite yet of crushing downer bliss, I’ll Drown On This Earth, was released last year on Dais Records and it's a perfect storm of distortion and dreampop, cracked love songs cloaked in swooning walls of noise.
Today, COLD GAWD embark on a North American tour with High Vis— kicking off in Vancouver, the tour will hit Seattle, PDX, L.A., Denver, Chicago, Boston, Brooklyn and more, ending October 12 in Baltimore. Check out the tour routing below. Additionally, the band has shared an unreleased single / music video for "Bomb Pop" of which they comment: "If you have ever got engaged in London while the sun sets in February, this one's for you."
Cold Gawd supporting High Vis, September & October 2025:
09/23 - Vancouver, BC at Rickshaw Theatre
09/25 - Portland, OR at Wonder Ballroom
09/27 - Los Angeles, CA at The Regent Theater
10/04 - St. Louis, MO at Red Flag
10/05 - Chicago, IL at Bottom Lounge
10/06 - Clinton Twp, MI at Edgemen Printing
10/08 - Boston, MA at Paradise Rock Club
10/09 - Brooklyn, NY at Warsaw
10/10 - Jersey City, NJ at White Eagle Hall
10/11 - Philadelphia, PA at Underground Arts
10/12 - Baltimore, MD at Ottobar
Cold Gawd press:
"Cold Gawd’s records are cohesive aesthetic statements. They have swag. At a time when shoegaze has become an oppressively trendy subgenre in rock, their music stands out from the buzzword-humping masses." - Stereogum
"...lends new depth to the darkness." Pitchfork
"Its slow-motion swirl of Deftones-to-Hum-styled hooks are fully hypnotic" - Revolver
"a band that understands shoegaze is a route to something bigger than all of us, not merely a setting on an effects pedal" - The FADER