Australian four-piece have shared their second single Rose Blind, which is lifted from their upcoming album ‘Drum’ due August 18th via Felte. You can check out the official video for Rose Blind via YouTube below.
Director Flagz from Defero Productions offered some insight behind the meaning of the video saying “For ‘Rose Blind’ I wanted to show the similarities between the strong and the soft sides of human relationships, they may look different but in the end we all bleed.”
Gold Class vocalist Adam Curley added “I was trawling through a car wreckers and made a kind of sculpture with a few parts I found. The idea was to examine skin and human figures against these brutal and soft materials – and the dark and light of things – in an uncomfortable way.”
‘Drum’ is the bold second album from 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 and 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 Splendor in The Grass, as well as international sets at SXSW, London Calling and Primavera Sound.
Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios and 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’ distils the messy scope of life into a brave, sometimes brutal but beautiful new document. Whatever will come, the beat – at least – goes on.
‘Drum’ Track listing
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 Live Dates
09.18 – Paris, FR @ Le Pop Up du Label
09.20-23 Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival
09.23 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Noord
09.26 London, UK @ Moth Club
