Sydney duo Polish Club have caused a large wave in a short period of time with their infectious brand of high octane garage-soul, best experienced to date in the guise of their jackhammer live show. Now that's all about to change with the release of debut longplayer Alright Already, a propulsive slab of energetic rock'n'roll which manages to showcase some new sonic sides to the partnership without compromising any of their scuzzy appeal.

"The thing we were always really conscious about doing was making sure that it wasn't all one-and-a-half minute short, fast and loud songs, we wanted it to kinda reflect the different kind of songs that we like to do," explains guitarist/vocalist David Novak. "So there's some slower jams on there that break the three-minute mark, and there's the standard short original party songs that people are probably more accustomed to, and then we bridged that gap with a few mid-tempo ones as well.

"John played in my high school band, which wasn't a real band." 

"We wanted to really find that balance and have the album flow a lot, but we didn't really have too much of a concept besides that - we just wanted to pick the best songs because we had so many to choose from. It was an easy process to do because there were some that really stood out, and I think we made the right choice."

Novak and drummer John-Henry Pajak started Polish Club two years ago, stumbling upon their distinctive sound almost by accident. "We knew we wanted to keep it pretty simple and fun," the singer reflects. "The only reason we ever started it was to enjoy ourselves and have an outlet that we hadn't previously thought of. We'd never really played that much together before - John played in my high school band, which wasn't a real band; we didn't release anything or play too many gigs - but in that short period of time we played together right before we formed Polish Club we just kind of gelled. We said, 'Why don't we try doing some music with just us two?' and we booked a room for three hours and before we knew it we had [tracks from their self-titled 2015 EP] Able and Beeping in our first practice session.

"It was never a conscious thing where we said, 'We're going to do some garage rock/soul sound,' or whatever people are calling it, we just tried a bit of everything in that first session and then realised that doing this kind of music in this way is the best way we can sell the energy and the music that we're trying to make. From my perspective I just rolled with it and found something that was easy to do and just felt right, and just kept doing it. It's really satisfying because it felt really organic to me - I never thought too much about it."