Cola Share New Single "Bitter Melon", Announce Tour Dates
“Bitter Melon” is a new zine housing a flexi single of the same name by Fire Talk recording artist Cola. Flip the pages to reveal a new world, symbols both modern and ancient, just a taste of what’s to come. “Bitter Melon” creates a trance-like atmosphere of repetition and lingering, falling in and out of form. With roots in Montreal, Cola was formed by ex-Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy, and Evan Cartwright who had played with U.S. Girls and the Weather Station, among others. From their inception, they brought together the spartan d.i.y. ethic of Dischord or SST working punks with an ear toward the modern.
Looser, and more exploratory than their debut, "Bitter Melon" shifts down into a hypnotic gear of repetition and polyrhythmic guitar fingering that evokes the more mystical side of krautrock or kosmische. It provides an intriguing suggestion of where the band might take the sound that was so lauded on their debut, maintaining their edge while giving themselves a little more room to breath.
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Cola On Tour
Wed. May 8th - Hanover, DE @ Cafe Glocksee```
Thu. May 9th - Rotterdam, NL @ V11
Fri. May 10th - Eindhoven, NL @ Altstadt
Sat. May 11th - Luxembourg @ Out Of The Crowd Festival
Mon. May 13th - Ramsgate, UK @ Ramsgate Music Hall
Tue. May 14th - Birkenhead, UK @ Future Yard
Wed. May 15th - Cardiff, UK @ CLWB IFOR BACH
Fri. May 17th - London, UK @ The George Tavern
Sati. May 18th - London, UK @ The George Tavern