Cola – “Albatross” [Video]

Cola returns with another taste of the new album The Gloss (due out June 14th on Fire Talk and Next Door Records in Canada). While a degree of compact minimalism is a hallmark of the band’s sound, the tracks that have been heard from Cola’s new LP have shown a more discursive bent than their first album. The songs have more parts and more variations, and a tendency to blend an undercurrent of simmering urgency with oblique rhythms and changes of pace. “Albatross” is no exception, maintaining a forward momentum redolent of the race horses featured in Darcy’s lyrics, but with a contemplative element worked into the band’s spacious arrangements.

Darcy says of the track:
“This song had a few lives before it took its final form. We played a much faster version on some later Deep in View tours with different lyrics. When we eventually got to the studio we revisited Ben’s original demo and decided to slow it down and re-introduce a heavier feeling.

I then had a spark of inspiration and completely rewrote the lyrics, which center around “an albatross”–something that greatly hinders accomplishment. From there I started thinking about a horse race and perhaps some trainer watching a slow motion replay to try identify what’s wrong with an animal’s stride, hence the chorus.“

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