{"id":544919,"date":"2026-03-18T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544919\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:09:12","slug":"cola-share-new-song-conflagration-mindset-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544919\/","title":{"rendered":"Cola Share New Song “Conflagration Mindset”: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Tim Darcy, formerly of Ought and currently of Cola, was one of many musicians whose homes were destroyed<\/a> in the LA wildfires. On Cola’s new song “Conflagration Mindset,” Darcy sings about robotically marching on while forces far beyond you have thrown your life into chaos: “A decent way to dress it up\/ Cold beer in a hotel cup\/ I\u2019m alone, but I\u2019ll gas the car\/ In conflagration mindset.”<\/p>\n

This spring, Cola will release their new album C.O.L.A., or Cost Of Living Adjustment. We posted lead single “Hedgesitting<\/a>,” and now they’ve shared “Conflagration Mindset,” a stark and bleary post-punk song about stark and bleary situations. Here’s what Darcy says about it:<\/p>\n

This track began as a wintry-cold synth and drum machine exploration that Evan sent around. Ben and I were hanging out at his apartment and were immediately taken with it and started messing around with finding ways to play aspects of his synth part on bass and guitar, a fun challenge we continued to explore even in the studio as we played with blending the synthetic and live versions of the track.<\/p>\n

Most of the lyrics on this track were written after I experienced a house fire during the wildfires in LA last year. The phrase “Conflagration Mindset” became a jumping off point for one of the more personal songs on this record, though I certainly pulled from an array of experiences. When you go through something like that, people come out of the woodwork and share their stories with you. I learned a lot about house fires in general and the way they can reshape lives and whole communities. Because of that, it’s really a song about the nature of loss in general.<\/p>\n

Below, check out “Conflagration Mindset” and Cola’s upcoming tour dates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

TOUR DATES:
7\/08 – Toronto, ON @ Longboat Hall
7\/09 – Detroit, MI @ Lager House
7\/10 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
7\/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Zhora Darling
7\/12 – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
7\/15 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
7\/16 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
7\/17 – Ridgewood, NY @ TV Eye
7\/18 – New York, NY @ Night Club 101
7\/19 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
7\/21 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
7\/22 – Portland, ME @ Oxbow
7\/23 – Brattleboro, VT @ Stone Church
7\/24 – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
10\/28 – Paris, France @ Petit Bain
10\/29 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Rotwown
10\/30 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ London Calling (Paradiso)
10\/31 – Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
11\/02 – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
11\/03 – London, UK @ The Garage
11\/04 – York, UK @ The Crescent
11\/05 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
11\/06 – Newcastle upon Tyne, UK @ Brave Exhibitions (The Cluny)
11\/07 – Salford, UK @ The White Hotel
11\/10 – Berlin, Germany @ Badehaus
11\/11 – Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow
11\/13 – Gothenburg, Sweden @ Oceanen
11\/14 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Hus 7
11\/16 – Malmo, Sweden @ Plan B
11\/18 – Bredsten, Denmark @ Engelsholm H\u00f8jskolel<\/p>\n

Cost Of Living Adjustment is out 5\/8 on Fire Talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Tim Darcy, formerly of Ought and currently of Cola, was one of many musicians whose homes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-544919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}