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We’d like to share with you a recent review of our new EP “Living Beyond Limits”. The review was written by music journalist Carl Cunningham, whose ran pieces for the Foo Fighters and Elton John among others. We love hearing honest takes on our music! Check it out below.
“For a band that’s been together for barely two years, Class 6 very quickly hit on their sound and their artistic vision to fuse a variety of music genres with their youthful outlook and their penchant for spinning a positive take on life, love and culture in their lyrics.
On Living Beyond Limits, the New Jersey-based band kicks things off with “The New Movement,” a fierce, rhythmically grandiose song overflowing with funky bass lines, swirling keyboards and expertly-delivered lyrical rapping. The three-minute opening package sets the stage for the listener’s introduction to the offbeat Class 6 fusion of slamming pop, hip-hop, and rock.
“Nostalgia” represents exactly what the title implies and stands out as a bit of a musical conundrum… how is it that a group of six young guys (some of whom are still in high school) are so introspective and wistful? How do they even know the true inner meaning of nostalgia, and how do they express it in song so effectively? Well, they do perfectly capture that longing-for-better-days and thoughtful reflection typically only experienced much later in life within the lyrics in “Nostalgia.”
“You know you been there/Nostalgia in the air/It’s more than what you wear or how you rock ya hair/Do you recall?/It’s what made you who you are.” That street-smart sentiment in “Nostalgia” shows Class 6’s foundation is firmly planted in their youth with an eye for their future.
If Class 6 has a ‘love song,’ it is the riff-heavy “Catchin’ Fire,” a bass-popping, bittersweet tale about meeting a girl at a club and falling fast and hard for her, only to find out she’s bad news and not “Ms. Right” in the end. Unlike much of their rock and hip hop contemporaries, “Catchin’ Fire” is a jaded story of female deception and disappointment, but it stops far short of the vile and hatred so commonplace in music lyrics today. Class 6 shows you can write about love gone wrong, mind games and cheating without coming across as a woman hating perverted ego maniac.
“Triumph” comes in at just the right redemptive moment on Living Beyond Limits to remind us all that everything in life happens for a reason – the good, the bad, and everything in between. Again, like the over-the-top bragging and self-aggrandizing of so many others in the music industry, Class 6 manages to rise above that and keep things classy while letting others know how they overcame adversity and negativity together as a band.
Lyrically and musically, the band stands tall and confident without being cocky, they are morally upright without the accompanying superiority complex, and they exhibit stellar musical skills. No song captures all of that better than “Misguided.” They’re probably the first band to use the phrase “family values” in a song that wasn’t ridiculing the concept of family values. They’re not saying they’re squeaky clean either – they’re just saying it’s cool to have a strong set of core beliefs and to write and rap about them with pride and conviction. More power to ‘em.”
- Carl Cunningham
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