Gold Class It’s You (LP/CD)

01. Furlong 06. The Soft Delay 02. Life As A Gun 07. Pro Crank 03. Bite Down 08. Michael 04. Perverts 09. Athena 05. Half Moon Over 10. Shingles (Stay A While)

RELEASE BIO There are few voices of meaningful dissent left in rock music. Even fewer play with the savagery, subtlety and melody of Melbourne-based newcomers Gold Class.

Armed with only a handful of songs, Gold Class quickly drew heads to their live shows when they appeared mid-2014, just a couple of months after getting together. Characterized by attacking rhythms, bristling garage guitar lines and the deep vibrato of singer Adam Curley, the band were soon mixing art- space and basement gigs for their debut seven-inch, “Michael”. “Life as a Gun” and “Michael” will be included on Gold Class’ RELEASE INFO forthcoming debut album. Stay tuned for more details. Label: felte Catalogue Number: FLT-025 Gold Class formed quickly. Guitarist Evan James Purdey Format: CD; LP delayed recruited fellow creative-writing students Mark Hewitt (drums) Release Date(s): September 18, 2015 and Adam Curley (vocals) to elaborate on guitar ideas he’d UPC-LP: Released later recorded to a Dictaphone over the course of a summer. Jon UPC-CD: 616892328742 Shub, who worked late-night bar shifts with Purdey and Curley Vinyl Is Non-Returnable and who builds and fixes guitars out of a workshop, made an Genre: Alternative / Post-Punk instrument for himself and joined on bass. The initial philosophy FIYL: Vocals like Morrissey, Antony Hegarty, Henry Rollins; was simple: each member would write his own parts with Musically Gang of Four, The Smiths, Jet to Brazil, Deerhunter reverence given to the whole. drums, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Wilderness Box Lot: LP = TBD / CD = 35 “We write everything together in a small room, which is a recipe for tantrums, but we also look out for each other’s interests and we’re pretty dedicated to that way of working,” Curley explains. “The album was intended to be a document of the live set we POINTS OF INTEREST wrote in a short amount of time, recorded quickly and released • Debut album from this Melbourne 4-piece soon after. It’s our opening statement as a band in a way.” • “Like a punkier Viva Hate era Morrissey or a moodier Gang of Four, the song, taken from their upcoming debut album, bristles In the autumn of 2015, Gold Class went into Melbourne’s Head and buzzes at a corybantic pace.” - Noisey Gap Studio for four days with producer Simon Grounds (GOD, • “... an aggressive post-punk version of The Smiths thanks to Twerps) to record ten songs to tape. The result is the band’s singer Adam Curley’s deep, lingering vocals.” - Stereogum debut album, It’s You, led by first single “Life as a Gun”, with its firing lyrical offering, “You can hold your finger on the trigger.” Elsewhere on the record, political protest meets Australian kosmische; proud perversion rubs against lo-fi jangle, and outsider longings become rallying choruses as Gold Class play out the push-and-pull of their first album’s title. LABEL CONTACT Felte [email protected] http://felte.net

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