CLASS - "If You've Got Nothing" (2023, full album)

If you look up the term CLASS in the dictionary, one of its most usual meanings is "showing stylish excellence". OMG! It fits them perfectly! Although you can also take its sense referring to teaching, because if a band is giving a masterclass of how to do things today is this Tucson four-piece, that in an absolut record time, maybe even less than two years, has managed to become for us a band as epic as Television, Wire or The Modern Lovers can be, without their sound having much to do with all of them, and this "If You've Got Nothing" that Feel It Records releases demonstrating once again Sam Richardson's infallible clinic eye, has been conceived in each and every one of its tracks to be the 2023 champion. People say that our descriptions are "exaggerated", of course they are, we do this for passion, we are totally biased, we don't have to be objective, and we only put on our channel what we really love... True! we are exaggerated, but you know what? Not in this occasion.
https://nowthatsclass.bandcamp.com/album/if-youve-got-nothing

00:00 01. Public Void
03:25 02. Behind the Ball
06:41 03. Coward's Disaster
09:44 04. Between the Lines
11:53 05. Two-Way Track
14:27 06. Burning Cash
16:15 07. Just Another Number
18:23 08. Inspect the Receipt
20:39 09. Oh! The Nerve
22:28 10. Task Collector
24:40 11. As If It'd Even the Score
27:26 12. Grid Stress

"The Artist works in a museum
And that museum is rocknroll
In a world of meme punk rockabilly grandads
It’s the classicists that really have something to say.
Straight lines, hooks, and a clear path to your heart.
They might not be dbeat heart throbs
But no one else can give you that
feeling that you can hold on to a moment
Like you are driving too fast down route 60
And it’s never going to end.
In 20 years when you skulk the dark alleyways of wherever punk’s red fern grows, they won’t be talking about Dwight Twilley, the Looks, or the Nerves, they will be looking for a little CLASS."
- Tobi Vail and Hayes Waring

A Puig - Guitars, Vocals, Bass on track 4
E Meyer - Guitars, Vocals, Bass on tracks 2, 3, 7, 10, Synth on track 7
R Chavira - Drums
J Colby - Bass, Vocals, Piano on track 8
M Rendon - Backing vocals on tracks 2, 3, 10, Organ on track 3

All songs recorded and engineered by Matt Rendon at Midtown Island Studio Tucson, AZ

Mastered by Mikey Young

Cover photo by Rosie Clements
Cover design by Christian Blunda

"Big thanks to Sam Richardson, Matt, Vinyl Richie, Lenguas Largas, Joe at Paperface, Tremendo Garaje, anyone who's written about us or put us on their playlists, Gilbert, C. Blunda, Sweet David, Rosie, Lil Nutty, Tristan, Kenny and Inez, Bobby, Tobi Vail, and all who have been there to support in any way"

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