Gold Class Announce East Coast Tour Dates

Venerated post-punk four-piece Gold Class have today released their acclaimed second album, Drum, and have complemented the news with a quick east-coast tour this November.

The band will kick off their run in Brisbane, head home to Melbourne and up to Sydney over the course of the tour, touting tunes from their newly unveiled 10-tracker as well as 2015's celebrated debut, It's You.

Drum has earned instant accolades upon its release, The Music's Chris Familton describing it as "darkly ecstatic music that sounds both defiant and spirited".

To an extent, this was built into the album's DNA, frontman Adam Curley's experiences informing the songs' central gravitas.

"The week we started to write Drum, my relationship ended and I was left alone in a draughty old house," he said in a statement. "I sat around with my notebook, the quiet hours cut with news from friends and the TV: the suicides of musicians and writers I’d known and queer kids I hadn't; the systematic abuse of vulnerable people, the constant mockery of anyone on the out.

"I wanted it to be a record of defiance, a resistance to the idea of scrambling for a place at a table that wasn’t set for you. A sort of a love letter to anyone who not only can’t meet the standard but doesn’t want to."

Drum is out now via Barely Dressed/Remote Control Records.

Tickets for Gold Class' headline tour are available through the band's website.

See theGuide for dates and details.