Cola Close the Rollout for Cost Of Living Adjustment With the Wry, Springy “Haveluck Country”

With Cost Of Living Adjustment due this Friday, Cola have spent the past few months laying out the record’s shape one single at a time. “Hedgesitting,” “Conflagration Mindset,” and “Skywriter’s Sky” each pushed a different edge of the Montreal band’s post-punk grammar; now “Haveluck Country” arrives as the final preview, and it lands in a subtler register.

The track is wiry but warm, built on clipped, staccato guitar patterns and a bounce that keeps it moving even as the lyrics sit with class anxiety and selective fortune. Tim Darcy frames the song’s central image in plain, pointed lines: “In the haveluck country / In the haveluck times,” before turning the knife with “Oh it’s painfully serene / Crime without a payoff / What if it was all a dream? / Vivid luck.” It’s one of those Cola songs where the restraint does the heavy lifting; the groove is light on its feet, but the social read is anything but.

The accompanying video, directed by Camille Anais Semprez and Cedar Teionietathe Jocks, keeps pace with that tension rather than overexplaining it, giving the song room to breathe while holding onto its unease. As a final single, “Haveluck Country” feels less like a last-minute teaser and more like a thesis statement for the album’s perspective: sharp observation delivered with economy, rhythm, and a dry sense of irony.

Cost Of Living Adjustment arrives May 8 via Fire Talk.