#dream-pop

#dream-pop

For 18 years, Ben Cook has been making head-over-heels pop songs under a handful of similar names: Young Governor, Young Guv and the Scuzz, Young Guv. The project, recently rechristened as GUV, has outlasted Cook's time playing guitar on Fucked Up's punk operas and his stint as the frontman of Toronto hardcore band No Warning. But where other pop formalists write from a narrow frame of reference-'60s sunshine pop, , "Ticket to Ride"-Cook is a sonic mercenary, arriving at whatever genre he's into.