Cola - The Gloss - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cola / GLOSS - The Gloss is almost like a play. Not a rock opera-no-but a performance where the music, lyrics, and changes in light come together to, at the risk of mixing too many metaphors, make some fool's gold. There's cranky dissonance for sure to be found in the more volatile chapters like InchPallor TricksInch and InchAlbatross,Inch with nervous rhythms desperately chasing different shades of distortion in search of equilibrium alongside some of Darcy's finest lyrics InchI fetishize an ancient mind/To forget my albatross.Inch

Chime Oblivion began out of the blue. David Barbarossa reached out to John Dwyer saying he was a fan of Osees and he was invited to a show in London. The two hung out and hit it off, Inchthen I rabbit holed on Bow Wow Wow too...,Inch Dwyer recalls. InchI reached out to David and suggested that we try and write some songs together... I flew David out, we met at my studio and spent five days writing basic drums ideas.Inch The two got to know each other and had a lot of laughs. Dwyer then brought in Weasel Walter, knowing that he would be perfect Inchto add all that legitimate old-school weird proto-punk no wave guitar scratch to it, which of course he did masterfully.Inch Next came Tom Dolas to play fuzzy marimba, and the fabulous H.L. Nelly, Inchas I knew her from a record I'd put out back in the day for a band called Naked Lights from Oakland. I knew that she could pull off the vocal style I had in mind.Inch Together, the group created their debut self-titled album. For Deathgod. InchFor fans of Adam & the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Crass, The Slits, and any other wierdo punk we fell in love with as youths.Inch

Cost of Living Adjustment is the sort-of self-titled album from Cola, the Montreal trio of Tim Darcy (vocals/guitar), Ben Stidworthy (bass), and Evan Cartwright (percussion). C.O.L.A. Inch an acronym for Cost of Living Adjustment Inch is a fitting conceptual framework for the band's third record. Why? Because C.O.L.A. considers, among other things, socialism vs. Hell. It considers rolling the dice of life. The erie and sweet pangs that nostalgia can provoke. Following two studio LPs which earned the trio praise from Rolling Stone (Best Indie Rock Albums of 2024), Pitchfork (Best Rock Albums of 2024), Stereogum (Best Songs of 2022) and more, Cost of Living Adjustment is abstract, oblique, sometimes strange, whatever you want to call it. But it is also beautiful, in the classic sense. Beautiful like a painting can be beautiful. It touches on the sublime. It is Cola, the band, at their very best.