Cost Of Living Adjustment

Cola

Cost Of Living Adjustment

Third album from the post-punk Canadian trio

ADM rating[?]

7.9

Label
Fire Talk
UK Release date
08/05/2026
US Release date
08/05/2026
  1. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    Cost of Living Adjustment hits like piping hot, full-bodied espresso right to the heart, and it's the band's best work yet
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  2. 9.0 |   Clash

    That a band with this much already behind them could still arrive here, sounding like they have only just begun, is its own form of mastery. Lend yourself forward. Be with it
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  3. 8.3 |   Paste Magazine

    On their most assured record yet, the Montreal trio turns wage anxiety, modern unreality, and small acts of observation into something lean, tense, and deeply human
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  4. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The Canadian art-punk trio bring dynamic passion and determination — and actual melodies — on their excellent third album
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  5. 8.0 |   All Music

    It’s another album of subtlety and intriguing songwriting choices from Cola, not reinventing their sound by any means, but bringing in new ideas that keep things engaging and confounding in equal measure
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  6. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    As the Montreal outfit Cola release their third album, the former Ought members are steadfastly standing on their own terms
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  7. 8.0 |   DIY

    The lushest, most fleshed-out Cola record so far
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  8. 8.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    What makes Cost of Living Adjustment feel like a breakthrough is not that Cola abandoned their identity, but that they finally tested its limits. It is easily their boldest record and their best
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  9. 7.5 |   Pitchfork

    The third album from the Montreal trio breaks free with restless energy and earnest, worldweary songwriting
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