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Toni Collette & the Finish
12+ albums
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Toni Collette delivers a velvet gloved punch with her much anticipated debut album, which contains eleven self-penned tracks written over the last ten years. 'Beautiful Awkward Pictures' charts Collette's fluctuating emotions as she's worked her way round the globe and reflects her growth as a person and an artist. Laying herself open in her usual honest and unaffected way, Collette's lyrics are often poetic, intimate observations of life and the world around her and this makes for a heady, soul-stirring mix. 'Beautiful Awkward Pictures', a modest collection of musical gems, at times raw, at times rich, is unapologetically eclectic in style from the inspirational and tender 'This Moment is Golden' which fills the listener with hope, while the lush string arrangements of the debut single 'Beautiful Awkward Pictures' support Toni's powerful but vulnerable vocal skills. Piano strains permeate the entire recording but particularly within 'Vitamin Pills', an ode to modern excess, balanced by the simple and evocative picture etched when 'jonny left his lips on my window last night' ('Jonny's Lips'). 'Look Up' allows Collette's vocals to really fly and her band "The Finish" to rise with her to heart pounding heights. "The Finish", all successful musicians in their own right, include Collette's husband Dave Galafassi with his instinctive drumming and percussion, singer/songwriter Glenn Richards (Augie March) and his unique and evocative guitar sound, multitalented Pete Farley
