Young Guv is songwriter, Ben Cook. In 2018, he moved from his Toronto home to a sublet in Brooklyn, New York and there he began writing some of the best songs of his life. "GUV I", out in August 2019, is a collection of power pop — infectious pop music. Think of the contemporary guitar music that’s meant something to you in the last 18-odd years. Ben Cook has probably had something to do with making it or influencing it. Think of No Warning, which he’s fronted since he was in high school in the ’90s, who pioneered a self-aware, intertextual, and technically adept style o…
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