Cola by Craig Scheihing
Cola follow-up their 2022 debut album ‘Deep In View’.
Former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy are back with their new Cola tune Bitter Melon.
“This one started with a demo brought in by Ben,” Darcy has said.”The vocals and lyrics came naturally from the backlit, brooding atmosphere of the music.”
I wrote what was almost a piece of fiction (fleshed out in the accompanying zine we’ve released) where a person is up in the middle of the night studying ‘the gloss’ – additional comments written in the margins of a book. In my mind the text was like the rind of a fruit surrounding something, maybe even written at an earlier point by the reader themselves.
“The motorik drums and chiming guitars are guided by the bass on this song, something not unusual for us but the bass really provides a compelling longform melody on this song. The track has the energy of a full moon or some kind of fertile dark / gaia-facing productive spirit to me.”
The band have also announced some European tour dates during the spring which will bring them to the UK for shows in Ramsgate, Birkenhead, Cardiff and London.
Tour dates:
May
8 Hannover, DE Cafe Glocksee
9 Rotterdam, NL V11
10 Eindhoven, NL Altstadt
11 Luxembourg Out of The Crowd Festival
13 Ramsgate, UK Ramsgate Music Hall
14 Birkenhead, UK Future Yard
15 Cardiff, UK Clwb Ifor Bach
17,18 London, UK The George Tavern