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the album's lead single Hates My Boozin indicates he's a party animal verging on full-blown alcoholic... His lyrics most commonly detail interactions with characters he meets on the street
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The accompanying clip is simple, slow and pensive, cutting between various scenes of working-class Australians looking into the distance, forlorn while sipping a beer or lunging a dart. Capturing the unseen side of a quintessentially Australian way of making a crust.
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