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Release Date Friday 14th June 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
The Gloss is the second album from Cola - From their inception Cola have
expanded on the diy 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 frst-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 overfowing with innuendo-cumjournalism 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- ft your smile/ Til nothing ill remains." 'nuff said. It's an album
bursting with energy and wit and ideas-flled to the margins. Out June 14th 2024
on Fire Talk.
Tracks: Tracing Hallmark /
Pulling Quotes / Pallor Tricks / Albatross / Down To Size / Keys Down If You
Stay / Reprise / Nice Try / Bell Wheel / Bitter Melon
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