Our Music Critics Pick the Best Albums of 2021
In November, Montreal post-punk band Ought called it quits after a decade of work together. Ought announced that guitarist and vocalist Tim Darcy and bass player Ben Stidworthy had formed new band Cola with US Girls drummer Evan Cartwright and released the single “Blank Curtain.” The song grooves into the listener’s ear drums with an infectious bass line supporting Darcy’s bending guitar strings and hypnotic vocals.
With a loping rhythm and unaffected coolness reminiscent of The Velvet Underground, Cola’s only single “Blank Curtain” probably isn’t going to top anyone’s list this year, but it is an out-of-nowhere single with huge promises for things to come.It had been about a decade since the The Wee-Beasties had released its only full-length albumthe band’s only release one could actually find without having to be at some show to purchase one of 10 copies of something released 20 years ago.
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