Released: August 18, 2017
tracklist:
01. Twist In The Dark
02. Rose Blind
03. Get Yours
04. Trouble Fun
05. Bully
06. Thinking Of Strangers
07. We Were Never Too Much
08. Mercurian
09. Place We Go
10. Lux
GOLD CLASS
Drum | FLT-045
Drum is the bold second album from the punk band Gold Class. The follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You, Drum is a brasher, vivid widescreen account of a band hitting its stride while betraying the complex signs and scars of a life since lived.
Formed in 2014 by a union of workmates and friends from a Melbourne bar and creative-writing course, Gold Class’ string of lean, explosive live shows culminated in It’s You – a distillation of the then-fledgling group’s wiry punk, carried by Curley’s booming baritone themes of personal politics, sexuality and identity. The album was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize and nominated for an Age award, and saw Gold Class play sold out shows across Australia and London, at local festivals Golden Plains and Splendour in The Grass, as well as international sets at SXSW, London Calling and Primavera Sound.
Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios and co-produced by Gareth Liddiard of The Drones, Drum sees Gold Class explore new territory in both songwriting and sonics. Liddiard was instructive in helping the band capture these new moods. “We wanted to take a risk,” says Curley. “He was the one person everyone felt could do something interesting with the album."
Drum distills the messy scope of life into a brave, sometimes brutal but beautiful new document. Whatever will come, the beat – at least – goes on. Gold Class is Adam Curley, Evan James Purdey, Jon Shub and Logan Gibson. Original drummer Mark Hewitt left the band in April 2017.