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    LEANER, MEANER, GREENER & KEENER

    May 01, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS BY MATT DORIA.
    PHOTOS BY TOM WILKINSON AND BENSON KEERS.

    The leap from sketchy, sticky-floored dive bars to sold out inner-city theatres is one that Polish Club were destined for. Amidst a clutter of mundane mumble-rap and painfully soulless pop, the Sydney duo’s rough and rugged, ‘50s flavoured punk’n’roll stood out like a sore (albeit deliriously catchy) thumb.

    Triple J crowds fell head over heels for the sultry strums of David Novak’s hallmark Epiphone Sheraton – not to mention his whiskered howls, or the seizure-esque drumming of bandmate John-Henry Pajak – and before long, the local legends graduated from opening slots at daylong festivals to stages otherwise reserved for international superstars.

    Where 2017’s Alright Already was a product of the band’s loose and lowkey origins, its follow-up – the bigger, brighter and more unashamedly brash Iguana – feels right at home

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