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Hassall kicks off 2025 with infectious new single ‘Dinner Table’

Naarm singer-songwriter Hassall has released her latest single ‘Dinner Table’; a colourful, earnest and brilliantly written tune that vulnerably details some of her life-long phobias. The track is the first single from her debut album Means More To Me Than It Does to You, which is set for release on the July 3.

‘Dinner Table’ oozes personality from the get-go. Kicking off with a flutter of synths that ornate the track throughout its runtime, as soon as Hassall’s vocals begin in the opening passages of ‘Dinner Time’, you listen. With a confident performance full of conviction and charm, Hassall’s story-teller delivery on the track could be sonically likened to the work of legendary Australian songwriters such as Courtney Barnett, Angie McMahon or Middle Kids.

The theme’s on ‘Dinner Table’ initially spawned from her experience with Misophonia; a neurophysiological disorder that causes people to have an extreme reaction to specific sounds.

“Ever since I was a young teenager, I’ve had a pretty severely negative aversion to the sound of people eating. I would struggle to stay at the dinner table with my family and hated it when people got too close to me. Any kind of eating or loud breathing or sniffing sounds would result in me yelling or crying or leaving. I always thought this would be something that I got over, but the condition has only thrived over the years,” says Hassall.

“This song’s about that, and any other of my traits I naively hoped would ‘just be a phase’. I’m always suspiciously appreciative of anyone who’s still willing to date me or be a close friend once they’ve uncovered this crazy-woman side of me, and the song is about that too.”

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