Diandra Reviews It All

You ever hear a song that makes you want to combust in movement and energy? The guitar start stringing, the drums start rolling, and you begin realizing that music can hit you. Sure, it can stream, glide, and eve move within you, but certain songs are like slaps to your mind and body saying, “Hey, follow me,NOW!”. Drum is the bold second album from Gold Class, and shows that when the music strikes your mind, it leads you to your own movement.

For Gold Class, Drum is combustive in energy and sound. After a stellar debut, the next move was to go bigger, while, simultaneously, going rawer, as well. Beats and life’s brutality were the two essences Gold Class aimed for in Drum. Tracks like, “Trouble Fun”, “Mercurian”, and “Place We Go” are like misery meets music. This may sound “harsh”, but the goals of Drum is to make the harsh sound reflectively absorbent, and the roughness of life sonically smoother. Hence, my “hit” reference alludes to how music goes for truth and “beautifies” it. By now, we all know “the truth” may seem like an an overt friend even if she is your best one. She may not tell you all you want to hear, but her encouragement comes in her telling of what you need to hear. In a time, where “truth” seems malleable songs like, “Thinking of Strangers”, “Twist of Dark”, and “Bully” seem like electric opuses to how truth can “bend” but it never breaks. You can cover it up, but you still see things/ tracks like, “Lux” an “We Were Never Too Much”, where honesty feels like a dangerous dance with happiness; one mis-step and misery tries to interject. For Gold Class, Drum was a sonic and spiritual risk; one where they had to bridge their creativity with a greater purpose. If their debut brought them success, then their sophomore album is needed to be and proved that it is deserved.

For Adam Curley, the carved up sound does not deplete the very real scars that wrote each lyric, chord, and note. If anything his music/ voice has expanded, like his mindfulness, to be a continued exploration of themes of personal politics, sexuality and identity. With a baritone that can grace your mind’s skin like soft velvet or knock it open like nudge on a jammed door. Curley’s voice is an enigma you will never solve but will always make you wonder. How he can make the most blunt of life’s daggers come towards you heart and ears like a bouquet of flowers is stellar. Yet, Drum’s instrumentals billow, boom, and build to make you dance in life’s offered fears and loves, Drum proves Gold Class point; in life, you never stop following life’s rhythm even if you are not always sure where it will lead or the point of its sound. For More Information on Gold Class and To Buy Drum On August 18 Click Here.