01 October 2020 - 0 Comments

As premiered yesterday with The Music, Sydney group The Finalists release the video clip for their debut single.

Taken from their forthcoming full-length album on Half A Cow Records, the single is available digitally from Bandcamp and major streaming platforms.

Watch the Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone) video here

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."
Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone) was premiered on UK website Backseat Mafia, received its international radio premiere on Wildcard with Stuart Coupe on FBi 94.5 FM, had airplay across Australia and is one of this week's feature singles on 2SER 107.3 FM in Sydney.

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