It's delightful to see the return of Toronto's Ought in new skin. Two of that band are back from Ought's disolution a couple of years back as Cola, and debut album Deep In View is just out.
In retrospect Ought were ahead of the curve. Now just about every young indie chancer who picks up a guitar is in some kind of Post Punk, but when Ought set off in 2014 that kind of attitude was a great deal less commonplace.
Cola's sound is pretty much a continuation of what we became used to with Ought. Tim Darcy has a voice that's recognisably 1979, not a million miles away from Ian Curtis in its glum austerity. As close contemporaries, think Protomartyr or Omni.
Meanwhile the sheet guitar sound is appropriately monochrome. This is an album which doesn't surprise enormously perhaps, but it certtainly ticks the boxes that Ought customarily ticked.
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