Post-punk band Cola are at one with nature on “Fulton Park”
thefader.comDescribing the taste of a glass of Coca-Cola is a surprisingly tricky affair. Sure, it's sweet, fizzy, and refreshing, but try to pick out specific flavors or ingredients and you soon run into a descriptive dead end.
This is chiefly because there are no obvious source materials; there's no Cola tree or a Cola bird flying through the sky. Nobody has ever caught a whiff of the breeze and thought, "Mmm, Cola." It's a delicious but utterly artifical product.
Sharing a band name with it, then, asks some interesting questions. Especially for one with such easily identified roots as Tim Darcy, Ben Stidworthy and drummer Evan Cartwright.
Darcy and Stidworthy spent the past decade as members of Ought, the sprawling and poetic Montreal post-punk band whose new-wave indebted songs jutted in awkward yet appealing shapes across three studio albums before they called it quits in 2018.
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