Class Tourists

Reviews

Class Tourists Blunt-Forced Trauma cassette

A fiery tape from CLASS TOURISTS, who play fast and catchy hardcore punk with cool vocals. I hadn’t heard CLASS TOURISTS before this review, but read that they previously used a drum machine, something I’d be interested in hearing. Anyway, on this tape things are pretty straightforward, although there’s definitely a sort of rock’n’roll vibe throughout. This really comes through in the guitar leads on “Thorn” and “Time,” two tracks that make this one worth checking out.

Class Tourists Humanity Eats Itself cassette

CLASS TOURISTS are from England, and this is a really pleasant surprise of a tape. Not knowing anything about them and listening to this band for the first time was a real head-turner. Powerful hardcore, lyrically powerful as well. They seem to have taken something from many of the bands that started the first wave of punk and hardcore all the way up to today. They have other influences as well, including second wave ska. I know that can be a dirty word to a lot of people who lived through the third wave of ska, but this has little to do with that kind of vibe, and it’s brief. To me, it makes this a more interesting listen and a break from some pummeling hardcore. Great stuff.