Australia has an abundance of alternative rock acts, and many of them are world class. We don’t, however, have many alt-rock acts that are serious funky, but that’s exactly what Brisbane four-piece Osaka Punch bring to the table.
These boys bring funk and groove in massive doses, which make Voodoo Love Machine a hugely fun, danceable rock album. But that’s not all they do. The album is a real adventure, travelling in all manner of weird and wonderful directions. Underlying it all is a sense of cheekiness that keeps a smile on your face across the album’s 46 minute running time.
The album is an idiosyncratic and highly entertaining combination of all of these seemingly disparate elements, but Osaka Punch tie it together into a cohesive whole. It probably shouldn’t work, but it does.
Osaka Punch adds yet more colour and diversity to the vast and wondrous patchwork quilt that is Australian alternative rock.
BY ROD WHITFIELD
