Cola's "Deep in View Deluxe Edition" Is Out Now + World Tour Dates
Today Cola release an expanded version of the debut album "Deep in View" containing eight instrumental demos & an exquisite new version of album highlight "Landers," it acts as a perfect companion piece to their critically acclaimed debut, whose "sleek sound fits in with the melodic side of contemporary post-punk, with sharper hooks and more succinct songwriting than the members’ past work" (Pitchfork) & Rolling Stone calls "a new kind of art-rock deliverance.”
+ Cola announce a new run of worldwide dates, tickets on sale Friday.
Titled after philosopher Alan Watts’ anthology of the same name, Deep in View 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. The record 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.. The album sounds streamlined and intentional, 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. At the center of all these elements is Darcy, whose characteristically wry voice shifts from detached to decisive to distressed, throughout the album’s course. Both enigmatically dense in meaning but precisely intricate in sound, Deep in View is an album that sparks novel interpretations with every listen, like an art object that takes on new shape with each angle from which you hold it.
