:: One Dollar Short - Receiving Transmission

One Dollar Short

A double disc set from this punked up Australian five piece. One Dollar Short has earned its suppers. They’ve been doing this for a while now and they do it well. The first disc, the ’album proper’ is a well hung collection of crunch factored, melodic, punk pop that rattles with well focused angst and a general disenchantment for all things related to relationships. Their melodies, both conscious and inherent, are what keep’s One Dollar Short's floating on the top of the Australian sales pool. From the taut desecration of ‘Some Assembly Required’ to the stuttered grumble of ‘Note To Self’, structured, lean and sprung like coils, all eleven tracks on ‘Receiving Transmission’ bear merit. The second disc contains eleven tracks of album offcuts, singles and the like, including their slightly questionable version of Kasey Chambers ‘Not Pretty Enough’. More of the same, but if it’s the same thing that your after, tuck in.