{"id":8129,"date":"2019-09-06T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2019-09-06T06:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:08:29","slug":"young-guv-releases-first-new-video-from-part-two-of-double-album-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=8129","title":{"rendered":"Young Guv releases first new video from Part Two of Double Album series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Young Guv<\/strong>\u00a0is dedicated and prolific songwriter\u00a0<strong>Ben Cook<\/strong>.\u00a0Today he&#8217;s announced the second part of his double LP series,\u00a0<em><strong>GUV II<\/strong><\/em>, coming via\u00a0<strong>Run For Cover<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>October 25<\/strong>. Just off the heels of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-murttx-jtzijduii-t\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GUV I<\/a><\/em>, released earlier in the summer,\u00a0<em><strong>GUV II<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0serves as a sequel collection of profoundly poignant and infectious pop tunes with\u00a0choruses you&#8217;ll never forget and lyrics whose dry wit and understated acuity will knock you flat.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s revealed the album&#8217;s lead single &#8220;<strong>Try Not To Hang On So Hard<\/strong>&#8221; which Cook notes was written &#8220;on a\u00a0bit of acid. I was house-sitting for my mom and looking at all the photos and all the very British trinkets she\u00a0keeps around and on her walls\u00a0that make her happy. It had a pretty profound emotional effect on me, probably due to the LSD, so I wrote a song about how it&#8217;s ok to feel a little lost or lonely and to keep things around you that make you feel comforted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uBl0s3WJz_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Think of the contemporary guitar music that&#8217;s meant something to you in the last 18-odd years.\u00a0<strong>Ben Cook<\/strong>\u00a0has probably had something to do with making it or influencing it. Think of\u00a0<strong>No Warning<\/strong>, which he&#8217;s fronted since he was in high school in the &#8217;90s, who pioneered a self-aware, intertextual, and technically adept style of New York hardcore that has became a subgenre unto itself, dominating scenes all over the world for close two decades and counting. Think of\u00a0<strong>Fucked Up<\/strong>, for which he&#8217;s played guitar since 2006, the aesthetically omnivorous, thematically ambitious punk-rock-deconstructing band-like entity that, unlike the bulk of their contemporaries in the late-2000s festival-circuit indie-rock boom, no one is ashamed of having associated themselves with. Think also of his behind-the-scenes presence, the co-writing and production work he&#8217;s done for a host of artists at all levels of renown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Cook<\/strong>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t like talking about his music but he understands it. &#8220;To me\u00a0<strong>Young Guv<\/strong>\u00a0songs are like people-watching in a foreign country in the morning,&#8221; he says, ever the master of the vivid metaphor. &#8220;I&#8217;m there and I&#8217;m trying not to cry from the overwhelming feeling of sadness and happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As it happened, when the new songs started coming in May 2018,\u00a0<strong>Ben<\/strong>\u00a0was in a foreign country, albeit one &#8211; the U.S.A. &#8211; where he knew his way around, and could speak the language, observe local custom, and blend in, effectively disappearing, into the streetscape, into thoughts and longings, and, inevitably, back into his Brooklyn apartment, in the confines of which he wrote a song every single day.<\/p>\n<p>People-watching in a foreign country. Another way of putting that would be to say that\u00a0<strong>Young Guv<\/strong>\u00a0songs are about being alone. As the years have passed, as material and social conditions have conspired to make everyone feel increasingly alone,\u00a0<strong>Ben<\/strong>\u00a0has built a\u00a0<strong>Guv<\/strong>\u00a0discography out of invoking the desolation that arises when you&#8217;re isolated in physical and mental space but surrounded nonetheless by millions of other isolated, solitary people, literally any one of whom you could, for all you know, love with all your heart for the rest of your life, but almost none of whom, you&#8217;re forced to admit, will become anything more than a briefly transfixing stranger, at best a wraith that recurrently haunts your dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The city told him, in its aloof way, that a great record was waiting to be written and, most important, to be offered like a bouquet of flowers to the people of the world, in a humble act of love and communion.\u00a0<strong>Ben<\/strong>&#8216;s been a true songwriter long enough to have recognized, and heeded, the coded command when it came. He&#8217;s since moved back to NYC and plans to stay awhile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Young Guv<\/strong>\u00a0has confirmed September dates with label-mates\u00a0<strong>Turnover<\/strong>\u00a0this month and will confirm more North American dates soon. See below for a full list and go here to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-murttx-jtzijduii-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pre-order\u00a0<em>GUV II<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0and listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-murttx-jtzijduii-h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>GUV I\u00a0<\/em>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Young Guv Live Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>09\/07: Toronto, ON &#8211; MattyFest<br \/>\n09\/08: Rochester, NY &#8211; Montage Music Hall #<br \/>\n09\/10: Cleveland, OH &#8211; Phantasy #<br \/>\n09\/11: Indianapolis, IN &#8211; Citadel Music Hall #<br \/>\n09\/12: Grand Rapids, MI &#8211; Pyramid Scheme #<\/p>\n<p># w\/ Turnover<\/p>\n<p><strong>Young Guv:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-murttx-jtzijduii-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-murttx-jtzijduii-q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-murttx-jtzijduii-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Run For Cover<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Guv\u00a0is dedicated and prolific songwriter\u00a0Ben Cook.\u00a0Today he&#8217;s announced the second part of his double LP series,\u00a0GUV II, coming via\u00a0Run For Cover\u00a0on\u00a0October 25. 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