EXCLUSIVE: Go In The Studio With Polish Club Recording Their New EP

Following the release of their new EP, Okie Dokie, and a December headline tour locked in, Polish Club are taking their fans behind the scenes to show how the recording sessions went down.

Here's what happened in the studio.

The music studio is a paradox. It is everything at all times. Simultaneously the most exciting and boring place in the world. It's the most fun place to be and a total ball ache. When you're there you feel both like the most creative genius in the world and the most useless piece of shit ever.

So trying to summarise time spent in a studio seems almost redundant. It's a million little moments of the best and worst and mostly stuff somewhere in between. Subsequently, here are some definitive moments from Polish Club's time in Golden Retriever, recording Okie Dokie, ranked on an emotion scale.

Frustration: 6/10

Smugness: 8/10

This is Wade our producer, aptly pictured behind the thick glass pane of the percussion booth. Perhaps a fitting metaphor for the plastic wrapped around the EP and its liner notes, behind which he can be safe in the knowledge that any bad decisions made in the studio are invariably our fault, not his. "If those two idiots really want to end this track with 30 seconds of pained screams, then so be it, but that's on them." (we scrapped that idea).

Embarrassment: 6

Pride: 2

10am is far too early to be recording music, but time is money. And mornings are bright. "You're indoors, take off your sunnies you douchebag." said John. But alas, it is the morning, I haven't had a coffee and there is an actual skylight literally right above me and I'm too lazy to get off the couch.

Delusion: 7

Delirium: 8

The control room is the kind of place where an endless line of different artists and producers have left a wide variety of tiny musical accoutrement, like the world's second worst instrument (#1 being the cajòn) the ukulele. And days in said studio are the kind of length where you get tired of staring at Protools and actually catch yourself beginning to wonder what the song would sound like with a tasteful ukulele overdub. That's when it's time to call it a day.

Obliviousness: 8

Attentiveness: 2

Drums are loud. Like not being able to hear Wade shouting at you to say he's ready loud. Like playing two full minutes of Blood Sugar Sex Magik before realising we're rolling loud.

Discomfort: 9

Confidence: 5

Trying to get the right sound from a borrowed $5k guitar played through a tangled mess of foreign guitar pedals collaboratively with the disembodied voices of three unseen people two stories above you in the control room is not what I'd call my comfort zone.

Patience: 8

Bemusement: 7

Sure, most of our songs are quite short and structurally simple, but that doesn't mean one doesn't constantly forget almost every part of the song. "What do you mean what was that drum roll? That's the start of the song." "....ohhhh yeahhhh".

Alertness: 1

Honesty: 3

If I just look like I'm super focused on listening, I can probably get away with resting my eyes and power-napping. "What's that? Oh yeah, It sounds perfect. Probably could use a little more... you know... yeah. But yeah nah I'm super happy with, uh, that. Yeah".

Cheekiness: 7

Childishness: 9

It's the simple things that get you back on track and smiling. Like when John's got his headphones off and Wade leaves the talkback on while he's talking shit. Or like when John's got his headphones set a little too loud and I "accidentally" turn on my fuzz pedal.