Six Pack: Polo Club

Melbourne lads Polo Club have finally made the follow up to their well-received debut release The 13, gaining a couple of members in the process and shunning the traditional ideals of two turntables and a microphone. With a deeper creative pool to draw from, the band tackled weird and wonderful sounds and fresh structures, Thomas admitting the sessions were without boundaries.

“The songs ended up where we envisioned them which is always nice,” he says, “and we feel what we have written musically for the EP is a step above our last release in 2008.”

This latest EP was helmed by Tony Espie, somewhat of a go-to-guy for the lush synth sounds that the quartet have tackled on the release. Thomas gushes over the experience, summarising the edge that Espie bought to the table simply.

“I suppose Tony just brought Tony,” he levels. “Everyone you speak to says the same thing, 'He's a dude that knows his shit and he's a legend' – who wouldn't want to work with that? Tony has mixed a few records that we love the sound of like Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy and The Avalanches, all of which sound big and full; this is what we wanted when a listener put the disc in and hit play. Tony really knows how to bring a track alive in the mixing process; the songs came back sounding bigger than ever with a punch to them we thought we'd never hear. We would recommend working with him to anybody.”