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Cola share new single, "Pulling Quotes"

06 June 2024, 13:17 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

Cola, the Montreal band formed by ex-Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy alongside drummer Evan Cartwright, have shared their new single, "Pulling Quotes".

"Ben sent us this demo with music based on the melodic limitations of the Uilleann pipes, which he is learning to play (the bassline is mimicking the drone of the pipes). He and Evan then recorded a demo together that they were really happy with. I'll admit I wasn't drawn to it initially but they kept reiterating their enthusiasm for it. I finally sat down and wrote the whole vocal in one afternoon, pretty nearly in final form which rarely happens," Darcy says of the track.

"Lyrically, it's a song about a relationship where two people are approaching each other like journalists, or perhaps even are journalists. The music is so bright and open I felt the lyrics needed to be a bit cheeky to match the tone. There is definitely some pathos, though, in the darkness of the bridge."

"For me, the video could be seen as a reflection on the cycles of desire and deception in our relationships, and the interference running through that arc - the endless doom scrolling and stalking and assumptions and projections and repeating all these roles we think we should be playing that we've seen on tv. It's about navigating through all this mediation, and trying to make sense of what's real in the density and mess of it all," Stidworthy says of the accompanying video.

The new single is taken from their second album, The Gloss, and follows on from "Albatross", "Pallor Tricks", "Bitter Melon" and "Keys Down If You Stay".

The Gloss is set for release on 14 June via Fire Talk Records.

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