If there were any doubts about Powderfinger's perch at the top of the Australian music tree, it has now been erased with the release of their new masterpiece Odyssey Number Five.

The follow up to the 1998 platinum selling 'Internationalist' (still in the charts after 100 weeks), Odyssey Number Five takes you on an 11 track musical journey, reaching heights not heard since U2's 'The Joshua Tree'.

The album kicks off with the summer vibes of 'Waiting For The Sun' before heading into their first single 'My Happiness'. 'The Metre' shows they have been studying the Lennon/McCartney (and dare I say Noel Gallagher?) songbook while the boys take another swipe at the government but this time in the most rocking track on the album, 'Like A Dog'.

After the brief interlude of the title track we make way for 'Up & Down & Back Again' which takes the prize for the best song on the album. The last half is boosted by the inclusion of the soundtrack material, 'My Kind Of Scene' from MI:2 and a re-recorded version of 'These Days' from the film Two Hands.

Now I don't know if I'm the only reviewer in the country that has realised this, but I must make mention of the shameless rip-off of the Nine Inch Nails song 'We're In This Together' with their track 'We Should Be Together Now'. Despite that, the song is still cool and I await a duet with Trent Reznor in the near future.

What more can be said? Believe the hype.