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10/1/20.

What if Guided By Voice (GBV) were crossed with the pop sensibilities of Split Enz/Crowded House.  I’m thinking that “Pyrrhic Victory” from Brisbane, Australia based band Dollar Bar is our closest answer.

Over the years, I’ve thought of this band as a The Thermals/Guided By Voices (and maybe The Capstan Shafts) influenced band.  “Pyrrhic Victory” still sees the band mining The Thermals/GBV fields, but there is a lot of heart-felt pop-soul (I should mention Royal Headache as well).

Their albums have been released by MereNoise, and Sonic Masala.  

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Dollar Bar at Cyber City by Brad Marsellos. Cheap Hugs. Phones

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Why Their Third Album Is The Best Thing They've Done In 17 Years

Not too many bands can lay credible claim to releasing their best album after some 17 years at the musical coalface, but Brisbane-bred indie rockers Dollar Bar now find themselves in that enviable position…

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Dale ‘The Peach’ Peachey at The Foundry in Red Hill Brisbane, sometime in the 2000s? Photos by Jonny Romeo 

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Photo by Brad MarsellosBrisbane's Dollar Bar are about to dish up their third album of heartfelt indie-rock. Titled 'Hot Ones', and bursting at the seams with 16 flashes of lo-fi pop in the vein of Guided By Voices and Pavement, the latter of whom Dollar Bar shares a special relationship with, as guitarist and vocalist Chris Yates touches on in this week's Centre Sound.

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Hot Ones

Third studio album from Brisbane Australia indie rockers Dollar Bar. Jump over here to buy the vinyl: http://sonicmasalarecords.bandcamp.com/album/hot-ones© 2015 Dollar Bar / Sonic Masala Records.