{"id":39196,"date":"2023-04-17T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39196"},"modified":"2023-04-08T19:13:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T23:13:53","slug":"cola-share-new-track-keys-down-if-you-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39196","title":{"rendered":"Cola share new track \u2018Keys Down If You Stay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year, Cola, the new project from former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls\/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright, released their debut LP \u2018Deep In View\u2019 via Fire Talk Records. Earning praise from outlets like Pitchfork, NPR, FADER, Stereogum, Uproxx, Paste, BrooklynVegan, Consequence, Clash, NME and Rolling Stone who named the band an <a href=\"https:\/\/firetalkrecs.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5694861394877ae40d1c9a32c&amp;id=063baae6f4&amp;e=ebf8659a9b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artist You Need To Know<\/a>&nbsp;and called their debut&nbsp;&#8220;<em>one of the year\u2019s most thrilling rock statements<\/em>,&#8221; the album was one of the year&#8217;s most acclaimed debuts, and launched the band on a year of touring in support of the release.<br><br>Ahead of an extensive run of dates in the US, UK and Europe, the band are sharing their first new music since their LP, the tightly constructed <em>Keys Down If You Stay<\/em>. Watch the video for <em>Keys Down<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U-sMOeFoxGI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A live staple for the band, <em>Keys Down If You Stay<\/em> captures Cola at their meditative best. Subdued but subtly propulsive, the track wrings an unusual tension from its sparse arrangement, built around a hi hat-centered beat that came to Cartwright in a dream.<br><br><em>&#8220;Evan woke from a dream one morning: the three of us jamming with the memory of this exact drum part still etched in his mind,<\/em>&#8221; Darcy explains.\u00a0<em>&#8220;That was how this one started\u2026<\/em><br><br><em>&#8220;&#8216;Keys Down If You Stay&#8217;\u00a0has already become a live staple for us so we were thrilled to finally lay it down earlier this year. Our friend OK Pederson created the brilliant video for the track, a piercing and funny take on Cost Of Living.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><br><br>Cola&#8217;s 2023 tour dates will begin in Toronto\u00a0on April 19th at the great Baby G.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tour dates<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>04.19 &#8211; Toronto, CA @ The Baby G<br>04.20 &#8211; Cleveland, OH @ Happy Dog<br>04.21 &#8211; Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village<br>04.22- Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub<br>04.24 &#8211; Louisville, KY @ Whirling Tiger<br>04.25 &#8211; Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR<br>04.26 &#8211; Memphis, TN @ Lamplighter Lounge<br>04.27 &#8211; Fayetteville, AR @ Smoke &amp; Barrel<br>04.28 &#8211; Wichita, KS @ Kirby\u2019s<br>04.29 &#8211; Norman, OK @ Norman Music Festival<br>05.1 &#8211; Atlanta, GA @ 529<br>05.2 &#8211; Durham, NC @ Pinhook<br>05.4 &#8211; Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong<br>05.5 &#8211; New York, NY @ TV Eye<br>05.13 &#8211; Montreal, QC @ La Sotterenea<br>05.20 &#8211; Cardiff, UK @ the Tramshed<br>05.21 &#8211; Manchester, UK @ YES (Basement)<br>05.22 &#8211; Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete\u2019s<br>05.23 &#8211; Birkenhead, UK @ Future Yard<br>05.24 &#8211; Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club<br>05.25 &#8211; Ipswich, UK @ The Smokehouse<br>05.28 &#8211; Brighton, UK @ The Hope &amp; Ruin<br>05.29 &#8211; Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew<br>05.31 &#8211; London, UK @ Oslo Hackney<br>06.1 &#8211; Leffinge, Belgium @ De Zwerver<br>06.2 &#8211; Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Rotondes<br>06.6 &#8211; Berlin, Germany @ Urban Spree<br>06.7 &#8211; Hamburg, Germany @ Aaalhaus<br>06.9 &#8211; Rotterdam, Germany @ Rotown<br>06.10 &#8211; Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Merlyn<br>06.11 &#8211; Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands @ Best Kept Secret<br>06.12 &#8211; Paris, France @ L\u2019international<br>06.13 &#8211; Cologne, Germany @ Bumann &amp; Sohn<br>06.14 &#8211; Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix Bar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Last year, Cola, the new project from former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls\/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright, released their <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39196\" title=\"Cola share new track \u2018Keys Down If You Stay\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[22,23,25,28,29,30,1907],"tags":[10578,11158,1245],"class_list":["post-39196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-live","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","category-news","tag-cola","tag-keys-down-if-you-stay","tag-tour-dates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4FC2BA9B-8ECE-46D6-8A5C-81231E2688FC.jpeg?fit=1124%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-acc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40075,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40075","url_meta":{"origin":39196,"position":0},"title":"Cola return with new single \u2018Bitter Melon\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"April 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2022,\u00a0Cola\u00a0(a project from former\u00a0Ought\u00a0members\u00a0Tim Darcy\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Stidworthy\u00a0and\u00a0US Girls\/The Weather Station\u00a0drummer\u00a0Evan Cartwright), released their debut LP\u00a0\u2018Deep In View\u2019\u00a0via\u00a0Fire Talk Records. 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