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Montreal trio
Cola approach their knotty post-punk songs from unpredictable angles, their stripped-down instrumentation creating hypnotic cycles from minimal elements. The band formed in tandem with the dissolution of the founding members' former long-running act
Ought, and shortly after coming into being,
Cola released their debut album
Deep in View in 2022.
Cola is made up of guitarist/vocalist
Tim Darcy, bassist
Ben Stidworthy, and drummer
Evan Cartwright.
Darcy and
Stidworthy were active with Montreal art rock band
Ought for the majority of the 2010s, and
Cartwright also played with
U.S. Girls. Though
Ought didn't make their breakup public until November of 2021,
Darcy and
Stidworthy had been working on material for the project that eventually became
Cola as early as 2018. They foresaw the end of
Ought long before sharing their next moves, going so far as completing the recording process for the first
Cola material before letting fans know that one band was done and another had arrived. They shared their first single, the sharp and droning "Blank Curtain," in November of 2021 and released their first LP,
Deep in View, in May of 2022. ~ Fred Thomas