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Lucklaster

by The Finks

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1.
Anxiety Leaves me with nothing Anxiety But a head full of fear Anxiety Think I love you or something I spent a weekend without you But it felt like a year
2.
I don't wanna make another home A husband or a chaperone I'm done I'm done If what you need's a philistine A piece to pass the time Well I'm not one I'm not one You said that you'd never leave me Sorry darling but it seems you're wrong It seems you're wrong And they tell me I'm a millionaire The sole surviving heir Now that you're gone now you're gone All that money wasted fending off divorce I could've bought a horse But of course Tragedy it beckoned me A cliff face with a lip that called my name Called my name Salad or a cigarette Remembrance or regret It's all the same all the same All that tea we toasted Sensibly of course I should get back on the horse But it's not my life it's yours
3.
I’m uncomfortable lying at least most of the time That’s one hell of a crime what you’ve hidden in that dress If I say it I might I’m not the scholarly type I chose to run not to fight for the fun of it I guess What have you hidden in that dress You’d think I’d done something wrong the way the cops carry on But if by gone you mean gone I’ll get going I suppose Just say that you’ve taken ill it’s far from fitting but still I’m far from footing the bill I’m collecting all my clothes And you’re dressed down to your toes
4.
She tells me where and what goes and why I suppose And how it all shows then she takes off her clothes Cigarette pose cigarette pose As she takes off her clothes I stare at my toes So the saying goes and her reading lamp glows Cigarette pose cigarette pose As she looks at me she gets into bed I try not to think of the things we have said And my fingers are closed around a rose its meaning she knows She says don’t let us suppose cigarette pose cigarette pose We’re those people we chose people we’re those people we chose We’re those people we chose people we’re those people we’re those Won’t you look at us now Look at us now won’t you look at us now Won’t you look at us now on the curtain she closed There’s a cigarette pose cigarette pose cigarette pose
5.
When I thought I saw your ex-lover’s ghost He was picking his teeth with a pin Must have come in through the front door I suppose You’re always coming round and leaving these things open Coming round and leaving windows open When I said I saw your ex-lover’s ghost You said that I was never any fun That the face behind the shoulder was a trick of light at most Of all the dreams I could have dreamed I’d dreamed this one Of all the dreams I dream I only dream this one It goes oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Saw a ghost standing there beside you Drew a picture of a castle and a moat he drew a boat And behind where I stood he drew a tether Said instead of causing heartache wrecking homes and broken bones It’s just the accidents that draw people together Just accidents that draw people together He goes oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Saw a ghost standing there beside you When I thought I saw your ex-lover’s ghost He was watching me shave with a smile So I held his gaze steady hand steady eye He said if it’s okay I think I’ll stay a little while
6.
Lucklaster 02:44
7.
Black Dog 03:58
I got a job in an office I was vacuuming the floor When it wasn’t an office after hours eight to four And I started drinking like I never had before Mostly coffee in the evening but sometimes something more In the day I was a myth not a flicker of a name You’d think that all these men in beards and suits are just the same For me there’s nothing different in the way you hide your shame In a desk draw in your pocket or in a picture frame I polished up their competence I scrubbed it ‘til it shined I got $27 to the hour on the dime I kept what others threw away I sold what was mine I bought a jacket and a hat it was the fashion at the time You’d be excused not for thinking it was something I had planned You’d be old enough by now to know your mutton from your lamb You’d be stubborn you’d be stupid to think I gave a damn In the morning in the evening it’s two fingers or a dram Black dog in the bucket Black dog by my shoe Black dog just my luck It’s the black dog black dog
8.
Work off on a Saturday We borrowed your friend’s car Drove out of the city There’s a white cross on the highway It’s such a pity You said it’s such a pity Stopped off at a Safeway Bought a paper and petrol Quick crossword and cryptic too Sunflowers by the byway I put one in my pocket The others I wrapped for you These and all of those things That your company brings Pulled up to the driveway The fence that your dad built The letterbox empty As I held your hand said you’d be okay We were just twenty We were just twenty Saw you by your mother’s dresser Trying on your mother’s dress I didn’t want to tell you didn’t want to tell you When you’re older said your father We’ll be gone you’ll have the farm I wanted to tell you I wanted to tell you
9.
I’m not trying to make things happen I’m trying to let them be My eye caught a passing fancy But it passed right on by me Give me a year and a box of matches And the year will soon be gone Everyone has another one Who they’re trying to sing a song It’s just that I’m not fond of the attention I’m almost but not quite close To being halfway done Suddenly it became so simple I knew where I’d gone wrong I got a place with a yearly rental I was living in a song of my invention So place an ad in the singles section I’m a young God-fearing man I didn’t vote in the last election But I’m doing what I can I copped the fine And wrote a letter of contention
10.
Candela Candela the moment I met her I gave myself over to thinking Of nothing at all I just stare at the wall Let this feeling of certainty sink in Candela Candela said with all respect I threw out all the things that you gave me When’s a ring and a life as a stay-at-home wife Been ambition for anyone lately Candela Candela a no-reply letter She says that it’s gone but it went still And if you wanted to be you could be just like me Don’t tell lies write them down with a pencil And sing them out loud O Candela Woah Candela O Candela Woah Candela And I dreamed that I lived just the same But with everyone calling my name So all the time that I spent and the places I went I went thinking that I was to blame And I dreamed that she loved me again But she called by some different name So whenever we kissed there’s a feeling I missed Like who we are and were aren’t the same When she loved me again O Candela Woah Candela O Candela Woah Candela Candela Candela this morning she’s better Toothpaste on the sweater I lent her And if it’s what you want this could be what it’s not I said I’d do my best to forget her
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12.
Moonah Mile 03:52
I go out I leave the back door open You stick around for days we still haven’t spoken They say that love is blind and deaf and dumb Well here’s to hoping Dishonesty it follows me from the horse’s mouth and back It’s like folding up a fitted sheet like running in a sack I think that we’ll be okay As much as I don’t like to say a thing like that A thing like that A thing like that A thing like that You promised me we’d go to see the Christmas decorations The local Santa wet with beer and perspiration He’s a good guy Seems like a good guy Across the suburbs at night Across the gutters hung suspended $10 fairy lights camellias all upended It happens every year every year Every year Every year Every year Every year Every year Every year Every year Every year Since we’ve lived here

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released February 11, 2015

Written, recorded and drawn by Oliver Mestitz
Mastered by Greg Wadley
Layout by Rosetta Mills

Vocals by Sarah Farquharson and Maddie Duke
Fiddle by Sophia Lubczenko
Banjo by Jordan Ireland

Thanks to Josh and Sam, Jen and Court, Cassels Road

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The Finks Melbourne, Australia

The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished.

The Finks have released a steady stream of quietly uncompromising music via Milk! Records since 2012 – three EPs, two cassettes, four LPs and a handful of singles. Critics have described The Finks as “crushingly beautiful” and “perhaps the most underrated act in Australian music”.
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