other titles...
- Tracing Hallmark
- Pulling Quotes
- Pallor Tricks
- Albatross
- Down To Size
- Keys Down If You Stay
- Reprise
- Nice Try
- Bell Wheel
- Bitter Melon
Cola
The Gloss
fire talk
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.
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-cumjournalism talk that it almost teeters over into self-parody