New Album Releases: THE GLOSS (Cola)

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Artist:
Cola

Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock

Total Time:
39:46

Record Label:
Fire Talk Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music

Release Date
June 14, 2024




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Product Description: The Gloss is the second album from Cola. From their inception Cola have expanded on the d.i.y. ethic of the Dischord and SST eras, creating potent sounds from a minimal palette of drums/bass/guitar and lacing their songs with winsome one-liners and societal commentary. What’s another word for commentary? Gloss, apparently. Never basic, the lyrics reward repeated listening for deeper meanings. David Berman’s poetry-via-garage light pennings are an inspiration, as equally so are the lighter side of UK first-wave New Wave and the Dunedin sound. The results are in the pudding: at times sparse and poetic, at others a thrilling, hook-laden good time, as with the cheeky romantic sketch of a one-night stand that is so overflowing with innuendo-cum-journalism talk that it almost teeters over into self-parody. But the results are the right combination of lightheartedness and sincerity. Romanticism is never far from laughter, and equally never far from righteous anger in the music of Cola: “Pulling quotes now in the dark/Our outlook is restrained/Your tongue might weaken to be-fit your smile/Til nothing ill remains.” ‘nuff said. It's an album bursting with energy and wit and ideas–filled to the margins. Out June 14th 2024 on Fire Talk.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Tracing Hallmarks (03:59)

2 . Pulling Quotes (04:43)

3 . Pallor Tricks (03:58)

4 . Albatross (03:27)

5 . own To Size (03:22)

6 . Keys Down If You Stay (03:46)

7 . Reprise (02:57)

8 . Nice Try (04:00)

9 . Bell Wheel (03:30)

10 .Bitter Melon (06:09)

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