GUV has shared new single “Blue Jade,” the track is off the artist’s forthcoming album Warmer Than Gold, dropping January 30th via Run For Cover Records. The project of multi-artist, Ben Cook will be heading out for a run of North American tour dates in 2026, including shows with Spiritual Cramp and Imploders.

Guv on “Blue Jade:”

“For this song, we were thinking about these last few years of the shoegaze wave alongside classic records by MBV and Chapterhouse, but with the aim of pushing it somewhere punk and more driving. The idea was to make it like a Blitz or Oi! record but bury it under a wall of guitars and texture. Most of the vocal melodies came together while the guitars were being tracked, quietly singing them into my phone. I took the instrumentals from the sessions at Max Epstein’s studio in LA back to London and recorded the vocals quickly in my uncle’s apartment, keeping it low so I wouldn’t disturb the neighbors.”

Warmer Than Gold was made with the help of an all-star cast of creatives, including contributions from James Matthew Seven, Darcy Baylis, Hatchie, Meg Mills of Turnstile, and many more. Warmer Than Gold is an album that feels in conversation with the entirety of his musical journey—a set of songs whose roots go all the way back to his childhood growing up in between Toronto and England, and travel through his prolific years as Young Guv (“I’m not so young anymore, three letter band names are cool, and I’m tired of being mistaken as a rapper,” he says of the name adjustment).

Guv
Warmer Than Gold
track list
Run For Cover

1. Let Your Hands Go
2. Blue Jade
3. Warmer Than Gold
4. Thorns In My Heart
5. Out of This Place
6. Chasin’ Luv
7. Seaside Story
8. Oscillating
9. Hello Miss Blue
10. Never Should Have Said
11. Crash Down Feeling
12. September Grey

Guv 2026 Tour Dates

01/29 Los Angeles, CA @ Three of Clubs
01/31 Boston, MA @ Something In The Way Fest
02/12 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
02/13 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
02/15 Oakland, CA @ Stork Club
02/18 Reno, CA @ Holland Project
02/19 Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
02/20 Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge
02/21 Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt
02/26 New York, NY @ Elsewhere Zone One
02/27 Philadelphia, PA @ Nikki Lopez
02/28 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
03/05 Montreal, QC @ Foufs *
03/06 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *
03/07 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *
03/08 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *

* w/ Spiritual Cramp, Imploders

Preorder Warmer Than Gold by Guv HERE