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.

Characterized by attacking rhythms, bristling garage guitar lines and the deep vibrato of singer Adam Curley, Gold Class formed quickly.

Guitarist Evan James Purdey recruited fellow creative-writing students Mark Hewitt (drums) and Adam Curley (vocals) to elaborate on guitar ideas he'd recorded to a Dictaphone over the course of a summer.

Jon Shub, who worked late-night bar shifts with Purdey and Curley and who builds and fixes guitars out of a workshop, made an instrument for himself and joined on bass.

Gold Class went into Melbourne's Head Gap Studio for four days with producer Simon Grounds (GOD, Twerps) to record ten songs to tape.

The result is the band's 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.

FIYL: Vocals like Morrissey, Antony Hegarty, Henry Rollins; Musically Gang of Four, The Smiths, Jet to Brazil