Rad / Cross Class - Cross Class / Rad Split (New Vinyl LP)

“The punk attention span is shorter than ever in 2020 and there’s barely time to keep your eyes on the road, much less look backwards, but recordings from two of Sacramento’s unheralded twenty-teen giants will stop you dead in your tracks. CROSS CLASS drop ten tracks in nine minutes—frustration on the lyric sheet manifests as erratic start/stop riffs, exploding into primal DBeats that last just long enough to set you up so they can break you back down with devastating abandon(ment). If Cross Class are the destruction, on the flip RAD celebrate all that remains. If you were lucky enough to see them live, then you know that Rad play for Rad (listen to LORY scream 'I’m not here to make friends!')—and they are playing whether you like it (or them) or not. Still one of the greatest and most inspiring live bands I have ever seen, cramming more honest intensity and mosh parts into criminally short light speed fastcore. Both bands are finished—Cross Class went to school and moved away, while Rad morphed into SICK BURN—but the records remain, and a healthy hail to Sacramento (the city and the label) for making sure that these sounds made it to the rest of us.”—Robert Collins

 Tracklist

A1     –Rad (9)     Return Of Thrash Radical     
A2     –Rad (9)     The Siege Demo     
A3     –Rad (9)     Ready To Fight: The Expansion     
A4     –Rad (9)     Hold Your Own Jacket     
A5     –Rad (9)     The Kids Will Have Their Say     
A6     –Rad (9)     Repetitive Stress     
A7     –Rad (9)     The Judgement Night Soundtrack     
A8     –Rad (9)     Who Wore It Best?     
A9     –Rad (9)     Failure To Shield     
A10     –Rad (9)     No Fun, No Rules     
A11     –Rad (9)     Next Band!     

B1     –Cross Class     Pissing Contest     
B2     –Cross Class     Traffic     
B3     –Cross Class     EMDR     
B4     –Cross Class     Eve Of Contact     
B5     –Cross Class     Legalese     
B6     –Cross Class     Deer Crossing     
B7     –Cross Class     Negative Self-Talk     
B8     –Cross Class     Reflection     
B9     –Cross Class     Fortune Favors     
B10     –Cross Class     Open Letter