Cola Present New Single/Video, "Haveluck Country" From New Album Out Friday via Fire Talk

Cola — the Montreal trio of Tim Darcy (vocals/guitar), Ben Stidworthy (bass), and Evan Cartwright (drums) — will release their new album, Cost of Living Adjustment, via Fire Talk Records. Following a trail of singles which have collected praise from The Needle Drop, Consequence, Brooklyn Vegan, Stereogum and more, Cost of Living Adjustment is Cola, the band, at their very best. Today, the band presents “Haveluck Country,” the final advance single from their sort-of self-titled album. Spanning images of drugstore vitamins and diplomatic immunity, “Haveluck Country” puts the idiosyncrasies with which Cola have become synonym on full display. “In the haveluck country // In the haveluck times,” Darcy begins, dropping listeners into far-off landscape already dripping with familiarity. “Oh it’s painfully serene // Crime without a payoff // What if it was all a dream? // Vivid luck.”

The accompanying “Haveluck Country” music video is helmed by Camille Anais Semprez and Cedar Teionietathe Jocks, and collects Borgesian footage of a helmet-clad Darcy dancing around a mysterious desert compound which slowly reveals itself under the light of a nearly-full moon.

In support of Cost of Living Adjustment, Cola will embark on a world tour, beginning with an Australian run throughout June. Following after, the July North American leg includes stops in Chicago, two nights in New York City, DC, Philadelphia and more. Later this fall, Cola will head back overseas for an full UK and European stint. A full list of tour dates are below, and tickets are on sale now.

Watch Cola's "Haveluck Country" Video

C.O.L.A. is sort of a self-titled album. It’s an acronym for Cost of Living Adjustment, a fitting conceptual framework for the band’s third record. Why? Because C.O.L.A. considers, among other things, socialism vs. hell. It considers: rolling the dice of life. The eerie and sweet pangs that nostalgia can provoke. This is not new territory for band members Tim Darcy, Evan Cartwright, and Ben Stidworthy. It is, in Cartwright’s words “a deepening of what we’ve been doing.” C.O.L.A. is an intricate, beautiful, and sometimes strange record. It is the band’s most refined offering. A perfection of carefully honed aesthetic impulses.

One of the goals with C.O.L.A. was to have the melody guide the lyrics. This is a distinct shift from the sprechgesang that has been an anchor for many of Darcy’s earlier records. Here, the vocal melodies are on the same level as all of the other melodies on the record. But the lyrics are no less poetic, no less precise than anything Darcy has written before (“It’s not,” he jokes, “like we’re making a Cocteau Twins song.”) The result is a record that is ruthlessly aware of all of its parts, and treats them all as equally important. C.O.L.A. is a record that speaks to itself: where all of its parts are in direct conversation with each other. Sounds do not blur, even when they are expansive. It is abstract, oblique, sometimes strange, whatever you want to call it. But it is also beautiful, in the classic sense. Beautiful like a painting can be beautiful. Really, really gorgeous. Almost chiseled in the way it plays so deliberately with experimentation.It is Cola, the band, at their very best.

Cola Tour Dates

• Wed. June 10 - Wollongong, AU @ La La La’s

• Thu. June 11 - Canberra, AU @ Uc Hub

• Sat. June 13 - Newcastle, AU @ The Hamilton Station Hotel

• Sun. June 14 - Sydney, AU @ Mary’s Underground

• Wed. June 17 - Adelaide, AU @ The Ed Castle

• Thu. June 18 - Melbourne, AU @ The Thornbury Theatre

• Fri. June 19 - Castlemaine, AU @ The Bridge Hotel

• Sat. June 20 - Brisbane, AU @ Against The Grain Festival

• Wed. July 8 - Toronto, ON @ Longboat Hall

• Thu. July 9 - Detroit, MI @ Lager House

• Fri. July 10 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle

• Sat. July 11 - Minneapolis, MN @ Zhora Darling

• Sun. July 12 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club

• Tue. July 14 - Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups

• Wed. July 15 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

• Thu. July 16 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd

• Fri. July 17 - Ridgewood, NY @ TV Eye

• Sat. July 18 - New York, NY @ Night Club 101

• Sun. July 19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's

• Tue. July 21 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair

• Wed. July 22 - Portland, ME @ Oxbow

• Thu. July 23 - Brattleboro, VT @ Stone Church

• Fri. July 24 - Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa

• Wed. Oct. 28 - Paris, FR @ Petit Bain

• Thu. Oct. 29 - Rotterdam, NL @ Rotwown

• Fri. Oct. 30 - Amsterdam, NL @ London Calling (Paradiso)

• Sat. Oct. 31 - Antwerp, BE @ Trix

• Mon. Nov. 2 - Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew

• Tue. Nov. 3 - London, UK @ The Garage

• Wed. Nov. 4 - York, UK @ The Crescent

• Thu. Nov. 5 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo

• Fri. Nov. 6 - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK @ Brave Exhibitions (The Cluny)

• Sat. Nov. 7 - Salford, UK @ The White Hotel

• Tue. Nov. 10- Berlin, DE @ Badehaus

• Wed. Nov. 11 - Hamburg, DE @ Molotow

• Fri. Nov. 13- Gothenburg, SE @ Oceanen

• Sat. Nov. 14 - Stockholm, SE @ Hus 7

• Mon. Nov. 16 - Malmo, SE @ Plan B

• Wed. Nov. 18 - Bredsten, DK @ Engelsholm Højskolel