One Last Salute's One Last Salute EP (2005, Independent):I big on the Sydney, N.S. music scene, being close friends with Slowcoaster bassist Mike LeLievre, but these guys are kinda the ugly ducklings, with harder bands like Ground Zero and more lyrically sound bands like Jedi Mind Trick, these ridiculous pop-punkers stick out big time, the production on this four-track EP is horrendous, the instruemnets are drowned out out by the horrible nails-on-a-chalkboard-new-punk-drawl/scream vocals, and the songwriting is inuntelligent for the most part, a second-rate cover of Def Leppard's "Pyromania" doesn't ease the pain either, the only good thing is the live DVD included, the band is fantastic live, I was front-row at the album release, but these guys need to get a professional producer,
three and a half out of ten,