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Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)

by The Finalists

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Peter Thomas An outstanding debut single!
A beautiful tune with a chorus melody that’s very Robert Forster/Go Betweens 🖤🎼 Favorite track: Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone).
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It’s Sydney in the year 2020 and for the last two years The Finalists have been honing their sound beneath a Waterloo tin roof, in a Petersham attic, and down long, polished corridors leading to a Marrickville practice room. The results are the musical amalgamation of singer/guitarist and songwriter Mark Tobin (Scarlet, Panic Syndrome, The Black Halo), guitarist Robert Young (The Wednesday Night, Semi Lemon Kola), bassist Chris Familton (Charlie Horse, Thorazine Shuffle) and drummer Matt Brown (Charlie Horse).

The band's debut single, 'Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)', is an understated slice of melodic melancholia, draped in acoustic and electric guitars that sparkle and gently jangle over rolling bass and Velvet Underground meets The Ronettes drums, while Tobin sings of the darker side of social media and modern technology. "It can be a bruising experience for someone in the sights of a social media hit squad, that ruthlessly cuts down those who don't conform to their perceived correct set of values and beliefs," says Tobin.

"Some enjoy antagonising this mob and can cope with the resultant social media pile-on, but for others it can mess with their mind so much they decide to stay silent in the future. This song is about how to avoid the negative effects on your frame of mind if you find yourself at the centre of an awful online onslaught," he says, offering some strong advice that, "if you have something important to say you should never pull your punches out of fear of a backlash."

lyrics

I heard,
Some people criticise your work
But all you gotta say is
‘It’s just the way that I happen to make sense of the world’.
I know,
That you get cut
And you get hurt
But you gotta find a way
To keep at bay all the anger that might suddenly surface.
You don’t want to be like me
I can be the worst kind of company
Try not to be alone
Just ignore all the hate on your telephone.
I’ve seen,
You shine brighter
Than you’ve ever been
But I know you take to heart
You take apart
Any criticism, even unworthy.
You should,
Stick to doing what you know is good
Cause you know that in the end
You can't pretend
And if you try then it’s easy to see through.

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released September 21, 2020
Produced, recorded and mixed by Bob de Freitas at Bob’s Sensatory Laundry in Waterloo, NSW.

Written & arranged by Mark Tobin/The Finalists

Mark Tobin - vocals, acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars
Robert Young - electric guitar, keyboards, incidental percussion
Chris Familton - bass guitar
Matt Brown - drums

Artwork by Bob de Freitas

RELEASED ON HALF A COW RECORDS

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The Finalists Sydney, Australia

With a sound that draws on the band’s collective music history playing in a number of bands in Sydney, Australia and Auckland, NZ, they’ve concocted a blend of jangly guitar-based indie rock, with elements of psych-rock, shoegaze and post-punk threading through the music. ... more

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