The Montreal-based trio Cola has always sounded like their music lives in a dystopia built by the creative freedoms of their own minds. Even on Deep in View and The Gloss, the band’s version of post-punk felt colder and more controlled than most of the groups around them. On Cost of Living Adjustment, that control starts to loosen. The songs are louder, rougher, and more willing to drag things out instead of cutting everything down to the basics.
