COLA SHARES NEW SINGLE, “KEYS DOWN IF YOU STAY”

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 19 IN TORONTO

BUY / STREAM DEEP IN VIEW DELUXE EDITION HERE

"One of the year’s most thrilling rock statements." - Rolling Stone

 "Cola's debut album addresses modern anxieties wrought by technology in a world on the brink, bringing their imagistic worldview to the present...with sharper hooks and more succinct songwriting than the members’ past work.” - Pitchfork
“Cola make it all seem effortless to create perfectly catchy post-punk tunes, incorporating their punchy instrumentals with casual social commentary and calming meditative meanings.” - Exclaim!

“'Blank Curtain,' a song that seemingly alludes to the myriad of possibilities the band now faces, stacked with oblique imagery and tethered to a driving groove." - FADER

"A hypnotic debut outing, leveraging minimalist instrumentation into propulsive, droning post-punk." - Paste
“Music for our uncertain times” - Northern Transmissions

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Last year, Cola, the new project from former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright, released their debut LP Deep In View on Next Door Records. Earning praise from outlets like Pitchfork, NPR, FADER, Stereogum, Uproxx, Paste, BrooklynVegan, Consequence, Clash, NME and Rolling Stone who named the band an Artist You Need To Know and called their debut "one of the year’s most thrilling rock statements," the album was one of the year's most acclaimed debuts, and launched the band on a year of touring in support of the release.

Today, ahead of an extensive run of dates in North America, UK, and Europe, the band are sharing their first new music since their LP, the tightly constructed "Keys Down If You Stay". 

A live staple for the band, "Keys Down If You Stay" captures Cola at their meditative best. Subdued but subtly propulsive, the track wrings an unusual tension from its sparse arrangement, built around a hi hat-centered beat that came to Cartwright in a dream.

"Evan woke from a dream one morning: the three of us jamming with the memory of this exact drum part still etched in his mind," Darcy explains. "That was how this one started…

"'Keys Down If You Stay' has already become a live staple for us so we were thrilled to finally lay it down earlier this year. Our friend OK Pederson created the brilliant video for the track, a piercing and funny take on Cost Of Living." 

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Cola's 2023 tour dates will begin in Toronto on April 19th. Full details can be found below. 

TOUR DATES
04.19 - Toronto, CA @ The Baby G
04.20 - Cleveland, OH @ Happy Dog
04.21 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
04.22- Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub
04.24 - Louisville, KY @ Whirling Tiger
04.25 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
04.26 - Memphis, TN @ Lamplighter Lounge
04.27 - Fayetteville, AR @ Smoke & Barrel
04.28 - Wichita, KS @ Kirby’s
04.29 - Norman, OK @ Norman Music Festival
05.1 - Atlanta, GA @ 529
05.2 - Durham, NC @ Pinhook
05.4 - Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
05.5 - New York, NY @ TV Eye
05.13 - Montreal, QC @ La Sotterenea
05.20 - Cardiff, UK @ the Tramshed
05.21 - Manchester, UK @ YES (Basement)
05.22 - Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete’s
05.23 - Birkenhead, UK @ Future Yard
05.24 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
05.25 - Ipswich, UK @ The Smokehouse
05.28 - Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin
05.29 - Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
05.31 - London, UK @ Oslo Hackney
06.1 - Leffinge, Belgium @ De Zwerver
06.2 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Rotondes
06.6 - Berlin, Germany @ Urban Spree
06.7 - Hamburg, Germany @ Aaalhaus
06.9 - Rotterdam, Germany @ Rotown
06.10 - Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Merlyn
06.11 - Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands @ Best Kept Secret
06.12 - Paris, France @ L’international
06.13 - Cologne, Germany @ Bumann & Sohn
06.14 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix Bar

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COLA ANNOUNCE DEEP IN VIEW DELUXE ALBUM EDITION, OUT THIS FRIDAY, & SHARE NEW VIDEO

WATCH / SHARE “LANDERS (ALT VERSION)” HERE

ANNOUNCE SPRING/SUMMER UK + EU TOUR DATES 

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"One of the year’s most thrilling rock statements." - Rolling Stone 

"This pleasing mix of exploratory guitar tones and ever-shifting rhythms that switch between the kinetic and flowing makes for an arresting debut" - Uncut (8/10) 

 "Cola's debut album addresses modern anxieties wrought by technology in a world on the brink, bringing their imagistic worldview to the present...with sharper hooks and more succinct songwriting than the members’ past work.” - Pitchfork

“'Very few bands currently operating are able to capture the mass content era, specifically the way in which it leaves you feeling bloated but somehow empty, than they do." - FADER

“Bobbing and weaving, its wiry, intricate guitar part pushes Tim Darcy's vocal into a different plane from his previous work.” - Clash (8/10)

Photo Credit : Colin Medley // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Last year, Cola, the new project from former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright, released their debut LP Deep In View on Next Door Records. Earning praise from outlets like Uncut (8/10), Loud and Quiet (8/10), Clash (8/10), NME Pitchfork, NPR, FADER, Stereogum and Rolling Stone who named the band an Artist You Need To Know and called their debut "one of the year’s most thrilling rock statements," the album was one of the year's most acclaimed debuts and launched the band on a year of touring in support of the release.

Today, almost exactly a year from the announce of the band's debut, Cola are back to announce an extensive run of dates in North America and Europe, and a new Deluxe Edition of their debut LP that will be out this Friday. The Deluxe Edition features a collection of instrumentals, demos and alternate versions of songs from the record, including a new version of “Landers” that the band are sharing today.  

WATCH / SHARE “LANDERS (ALT VERSION)” HERE

MORE ABOUT DEEP IN VIEW
Deep in View is titled after philosopher Alan Watts’ anthology of the same name, the record is built on a foundation of elegant guitar grooves and knotty rhythms, offering commentary on modern life and technology through curious lyrical vignettes, where quotidian objects and scenes are never just as they seem. Deep In View is equally a product of introspective songwriting as it is a consideration of the abstract landmarks of an increasingly media-mediated society. It also presents the most concise and melodic songs Darcy and Stidworthy have written to date.

“I love when I find a record that has many different angles from which it can be approached,” Darcy explains. The band’s affinity for polysemy is first-and-foremost a chord struck in the name Cola, which most obviously is the fizzy beverage that Darcy deadpans is "bound by laws older than man to poison most ordinary life on earth” in closing track “Landers”, but also can be traced back to a term in poetics as well as an acronym about social security that refers to “Cost of Living Adjustment”. Cola is also about drinking in the endless crispness of a streamlined (and streamed) world, and the often unsettling sense of satisfaction and emptiness that subsequently sets in. Fundamentally, this record is about passion and what happens to a person when they find themselves increasingly encountering a passionless landscape of consumption. This peeling back of layers is integral to both Cola’s mindset as well as their worldview, which despite a claustrophobic time in the making sees them joyfully exploring new realms as musicians.

Cola started collaborating in fall 2019 when Darcy and Stidworthy, both formerly of Ought, reached out to their friend Cartwright, who they had frequently met on the road while he was drumming with various other projects. “It wasn’t the post-Ought band right off the bat,” Darcy says, “we really just took time to enjoy the process of collaborating and writing songs together.” The band’s organic chemistry solidified quickly after a few sessions of jamming in-person. Then, as the pandemic began, they were forced to decamp and write songs separately. Working in solitude ended up becoming a “defining color as well as a barrier” to the album, says Darcy. He notes that he wrote the lyrics to “Fulton Park” as a “dream landscape”, a sort of alternative to the frustration and depression he was experiencing at the time.

The imposed isolation of writing at home led Stidworthy (who helped compose the album’s guitar parts and plays the piano on “Landers”) to “create little worlds with the songs”. The keen brushstrokes of all three members combined feels languidly tactile, replete with profound meaning that is almost archeological in its sense of economy and personal touch. This sense of relaxed exploration could only occur because of the mutual trust between the trio: Stidworthy adds, “I could go really far in cultivating a mood for a demo and send it to them and know that it could only improve.” Meanwhile, Cartwright (who also plays guitar on the project and coded Supercollider synth parts in the studio), found that he was subliminally incorporating drum ideas and patterns from when he first started playing as a teen, embedded deep in his muscle memory.

The resulting record delights in its aversion to superficiality. Although Darcy’s characteristically wry voice remains front-and-center, shifting from decisive to distressed and detached, his lyrical invocations remain only the first key to a much more intricate universe of sound and longing. Individual tracks often feel like small revelations, and each element contributes to a streamlined and yet poetically expansive set of meanings, as the rhythms of the punchy and exuberant guitar parts, urgent basslines, and unexpected drum patterns all tangle with each other in an elegant dance. Much greater than the sum of its parts, Deep in View is an album of artful and energetic post-punk that sparks novel interpretations with every listen, like an object that takes on new shape with each angle from which you hold it.

PRE-SAVE DEEP IN VIEW DELUXE EDITION HERE

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COLA - DEEP IN VIEW DELUXE EDITION TRACKLIST
1. Blank Curtain
2. So Excited
3. At Pace
4. Met Resistance
5. Degree
6. Water Table
7. Gossamer
8. Mint
9. Fulton Park
10. Landers
11. Blank Curtain (Instrumental Demo) 
12. So Excited (Instrumental Demo) 
13. At Pace (Instrumental Demo) 
14. Met Resistance (Instrumental Demo) 
15. Degree (Instrumental Demo) 
16. Gossamer (Instrumental Demo) 
17. Mint (Instrumental Demo) 
18. Fulton Park (Instrumental Demo) 
19. Landers - Alt Version 

TOUR DATES
Apr 19th | Toronto, CA - The Baby G 
Apr 20th | Cleveland, OH - Happy Dog
Apr 21st | Chicago, IL - Sleeping Village
Apr 22nd | Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub
Apr 24th | Louisville, KY - Whirling Tiger
Apr 25th | Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR
Apr 26th | Memphis, TN - Lamplighter Lounge
Apr 27th | Fayetteville, AR - Smoke & Barrel
Apr 28th | Wichita, KS - Kirby’s
Apr 29th | Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival
May 1st | Atlanta, GA - 529
May 2nd | Durham, NC - Pinhook
May 4th | Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong
May 5th | New York, NY - TV Eye
May 13th | Montreal, QC - La Sotterenea
May 20th - Cardiff, UK - The Tramshed
May 21st | Manchester, UK - YES (Basement)
May 22nd | Edinburgh, UK - Sneaky Pete’s
May 23rd | Birkenhead, UK - Future Yard
May 24th | Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
May 25th | Ipswich, UK - The Smokehouse
May 28th | Brighton, UK - The Hope & Ruin
May 29th | Bristol, UK - Strange Brew
May 31st | London, UK - Oslo Hackney
June 1st | Leffinge, Belgium - De Zwerver
June 2nd | Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Rotondes
June 6th | Berlin, Germany - Urban Spree
June 7th | Hamburg, Germany - Aaalhaus
June 9th | Rotterdam, Germany - Rotown
June 10th | Nijmegen, Netherlands - Merlyn
June 11th | Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands - Best Kept Secret
June 12th | Paris, France - L’international
June 13th | Cologne, Germany - Bumann & Sohn
June 14th | Antwerp, Belgium - Trix Bar

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COLA SHARES “FULTON PARK” VIDEO FROM NEW LP OUT THIS FRIDAY

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DEEP IN VIEW OUT MAY 20, 2022 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

PRE-ORDER DEEP IN VIEW HERE

"One of the year’s most thrilling rock statements." - Rolling Stone

“'Blank Curtain,' a song that seemingly alludes to the myriad of possibilities the band now faces, stacked with oblique imagery and tethered to a driving groove." - FADER

"A hypnotic debut outing, leveraging minimalist instrumentation into propulsive, droning post-punk." - Paste

Photo Credit : Colin Medley // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

On Friday, the debut LP from Cola, Deep In View, will be released on Next Door Records. The new project from former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright, the band's debut has been one of the most anticipated releases of the year, earning praise from outlets like Pitchfork, NPR, FADER, Stereogum, Uproxx, Paste, BrooklynVegan, Consequence, Clash, NME and Rolling Stone who named the band an Artist You Need To Know and called their debut "one of the year’s most thrilling rock statements." Today, Cola are sharing a final single from the LP, a track called "Fulton Park", and have spoken to FADER about their forthcoming album. 

WATCH / SHARE “FULTON PARK” HERE

BUY / STREAM “FULTON PARK” HERE

In support of the album the band will be touring in the UK and North America, with stops in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Full tour dates can be found below.

MORE ABOUT DEEP IN VIEW
Deep in View is the debut album from former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside Evan Cartwright (drums). Titled after philosopher Alan Watts’ anthology of the same name, the record is built on a foundation of elegant guitar grooves and knotty rhythms, offering commentary on modern life and technology through curious lyrical vignettes, where quotidian objects and scenes are never just as they seem. Deep In View is equally a product of introspective songwriting as it is a consideration of the abstract landmarks of an increasingly media-mediated society. It also presents the most concise and melodic songs Darcy and Stidworthy have written to date.

WATCH / SHARE “SO EXCITED” HEREBUY / STREAM “SO EXCITED” HERE

“I love when I find a record that has many different angles from which it can be approached,” Darcy explains. The band’s affinity for polysemy is first-and-foremost a chord struck in the name Cola, which most obviously is the fizzy beverage that Darcy deadpans is ”bound by laws older than man to poison most ordinary life on earth” in closing track “Landers”, but also can be traced back to a term in poetics as well as an acronym about social security that refers to “Cost of Living Adjustment”. Cola is also about drinking in the endless crispness of a streamlined (and streamed) world, and the often unsettling sense of satisfaction and emptiness that subsequently sets in. Fundamentally, this record is about passion and what happens to a person when they find themselves increasingly encountering a passionless landscape of consumption. This peeling back of layers is integral to both Cola’s mindset as well as their worldview, which despite a claustrophobic time in the making sees them joyfully exploring new realms as musicians.

Cola started collaborating in fall 2019 when Darcy and Stidworthy, both formerly of Ought, reached out to their friend Cartwright, who they had frequently met on the road while he was drumming with various other projects. “It wasn’t the post-Ought band right off the bat,” Darcy says, “we really just took time to enjoy the process of collaborating and writing songs together.” The band’s organic chemistry solidified quickly after a few sessions of jamming in-person.  Then, as the pandemic began, they were forced to decamp and write songs separately. Working in solitude ended up becoming a “defining color as well as a barrier” to the album, says Darcy. He notes that he wrote the lyrics to “Fulton Park” as a “dream landscape”, a sort of alternative to the frustration and depression he was experiencing at the time.

WATCH / SHARE “WATER TABLE” HERE

BUY / STREAM “WATER TABLE” HERE

The imposed isolation of writing at home led Stidworthy (who helped compose the album’s guitar parts and plays the piano on “Landers”) to “create little worlds with the songs”. The keen brushstrokes of all three members combined feels languidly tactile, replete with profound meaning that is almost archeological in its sense of economy and personal touch. This sense of relaxed exploration could only occur because of the mutual trust between the trio: Stidworthy adds, “I could go really far in cultivating a mood for a demo and send it to them and know that it could only improve.” Meanwhile, Cartwright (who also plays guitar on the project and coded Supercollider synth parts in the studio), found that he was subliminally incorporating drum ideas and patterns from when he first started playing as a teen, embedded deep in his muscle memory.

The resulting record delights in its aversion to superficiality.  Although Darcy’s characteristically wry voice remains front-and-center, shifting from decisive to distressed and detached, his lyrical invocations remain only the first key to a much more intricate universe of sound and longing. Individual tracks often feel like small revelations, and each element contributes to a streamlined and yet poetically expansive set of meanings, as the rhythms of the punchy and exuberant guitar parts, urgent basslines, and unexpected drum patterns all tangle with each other in an elegant dance. Much greater than the sum of its parts, Deep in View is an album of artful and energetic post-punk that sparks novel interpretations with every listen, like an object that takes on new shape with each angle from which you hold

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DEEP IN VIEW TRACKLIST
1. Blank Curtain
2. So Excited
3. At Pace
4. Met Resistance
5. Degree
6. Water Table
7. Gossamer
8. Mint
9. Fulton Park
10. Landers

TOUR DATES
06.18 - Montreal, QC @ Suoni Il Popolo Festival
06.20 - Winooski, VT @ Monkey House
06.21 - Providence, RI @ AS220s
06.22 - Kingston, NY @ Tubby's
06.23 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right
06.24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
06.25 - Washington, DC @ DC9
06.27 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle (Back Room)
06.28 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
06.29 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
07.01 - Dallas, TX @ Ruins
07.02 - Austin, TX @ The Parish
07.05 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge
07.06 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
07.07 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
07.08 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
07.10 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
07.11 - Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore 
07.12 - Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
07.14 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux
07.16 - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
07.18 - Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
07.19 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
07.20 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
07.22 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Bag
07.23 - Toronto, ON @ Baby G
08.20 - Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival
08.23 - Brighton, UK @ Prince Albert
08.24 - London, UK @ Moth Club 
08.25 - Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
08.26 - Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade Bristol
08.27 - Birkenhead, UK @ Future Yard
08.28 - Sunderland, UK @ Pop Recs Ltd. 
08.30 - Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete's
08.31 - Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
09.1 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
09.2 - Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade
09.3 - Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psych Fest (Yes)
09.4 - Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival

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