Incendiary Melbourne four piece Gold Class have announced their new album titled Drum – set for release on Friday 18 August via Barely Dressed Records / Remote Control Records.
After receiving rave reviews from their current Australian tour (including a triumphant home-town show at a sold out Corner Hotel), Gold Class have released their new track and video 'Rose Blind'.
With a raging and all-consuming chorus, Rose Blind explores themes of personal and societal politics. Vocalist Adam Curley explains “We wanted to write something with a big, raging chorus. It's a love song, really, but a love song to a friend. It's about feeling that even though you don't know what the future is going to look like, nothing can touch you because you'll get through it together.”
'Rose Blind' is accompanied by a dark and ambiguous video directed by Defero Productions. Having trawled through car wreckers, making a sculpture with a few parts they found, Curley explained that “the idea was to examine skin and human figures against both brutal and soft materials in an uncomfortable way”. Check it out below.
Drum is the bold second album from Gold Class. The follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You, Drum is a vivid and assured document of a band hitting its stride while also displaying the complexity and scars of a life since lived. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and produced by Gareth Liddiard of The Drones, Drum sees Gold Class explore new sonic territory.
Commenting on the album title, Adam Curley (lead singer) says “Drum is primitive. It’s physical. It’s the beat of your heart. It’s immediate. It comes from the past, but it also beckons to something in the future.” It holds other dualities, too – submission and authority; repetition and propulsion. And yet at its core, it’s just something you can dance to.
Pre-order Drum here
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 and themes of personal politics, sexuality and identity. The album was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize and saw Gold Class play sold out shows across Australia and London, local festivals Golden Plains and Splendour in The Grass, as well as international sets at SXSW in 2016, and The Great Escape, London Calling and Primavera Sound earlier this year.
In July Gold Class will embark on a headline Australian tour. Catch them at the following venues:
