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- 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
Cola's jangly garage comes from the same heartfelt musical space as David Berman's deep and ruminating literary poetics - 'The Gloss' is pressurised indie rock sizzling at the corners, building and building but never quite flying off the handle.
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
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