Cola Takes Us to ‘Haveluck Country’

There are only a few days until Cola releases their third studio album, Cost of Living Adjustment, which drops on Friday (May 9). Today, the Montreal trio treated patiently awaiting fans by sharing one final early preview of the LP.

“Haveluck Country” is the third pre-release single off the record, which lyrically tackles everything from the habit of popping drugstore vitamins to escaping political jurisdictions.

The band also dropped the song’s official music video, a lo-fi visual accompaniment to the track that magnifies the irony and puzzling dynamics of modern culture and politics within their imagined landscape.“We knew from the get that we wanted to work with Camille Anais Semprez and Cedar Teionietathe Jocks again—the filmmaking duo who crafted the video for ‘So Excited’ and kicked off our debut album so brilliantly,” the band explains in a statement. “They took Tim to a western movie set in the deep desert, abandoned of activity in the midnight hours.

“It was the perfect setting to investigate the themes of the song,” they continue. “What does it mean to live in the Haveluck Country anyways? The ‘red right hand’ could be of a gunslinger swinging a gun arm out in earnest—or pure camp. A metaphor for an archaic political climate. Who needs vaccines anyways? Take your vitamins. Is the sun perhaps setting on the old west? Is the pathetic and imaginary political promise of the ‘shining city on the hill’ vacant and empty as a western saloon façade??”

Cola, The Cost of Living Adjustment

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1. “Forced Position”
2. “Hedgesitting”
3. “Fainting Spells”
4. “Haveluck Country”
5. “Satre-torial”
6. “Polished Knives”
7. “Much of a Muchness”
8. “Third Double”
9. “Conflagration Mindset”
10. “Favoured Over the Ride”
11. “Skywriter’s Sigh”

ALBUM OUT MAY 9 VIA FIRE TALK RECORDS

Comprised of vocalist and guitarist Tim Darcy, bassist Ben Stidworthy, and drummer Evan Cartwright, the art punk outfit previously shared album tracks “Hedgesitting,” “Conflagration Mindset,” and “Skywriter’s Sky.”

Following the release of Cost of Living Adjustment, Cola will head out on a lengthy headlining tour, which includes a July stretch of North American dates. Tickets for the shows listed below are on sale now. You can find more information about the tour by visiting Cola’s official website.

Watch the official music video for “Haveluck Country” below: