14 WA Artists Who Are Releasing Music In 2025
From Pond, Spacey Jane and Pendulum, to local acts like Little Guilt and Yikes, here's all the releases on our radar for 2025.
Spacey Jane, Kayps, POND, Adrian Dzvuke. (Supplied.)
2025 is shaping up to be a thrilling year for Western Australia’s music scene, with a lineup of local artists dropping fresh tracks, EPs, and albums. From alt-rock to Afropop, punk to progressive metal, these creatives are making waves both nationally and internationally. We’ve rounded up 14 WA acts to keep on your radar this year, featuring exciting announcements, upcoming releases, and some fresh faces in the mix. Dive in and discover what’s next for WA’s exports, large and local alike.
Little Guilt
After a whirlwind 2024, Perth alt-rockers Little Guilt are setting the stage for an exciting 2025. The band confirmed via Instagram on January 3rd, “We bring you new music in the new year. Will see you very very soon 😀 [sic] - Love LG.” This follows a December 2nd post stating they’d be “locking in and making some new music”.
2024 was a banner year for Little Guilt, boasting almost a million Spotify streams, their biggest single to date (Freakshow), and the release of their EP Finding Space. They also embarked on their first headline national tour, played BIGSOUND, and bid farewell to bassist Jarrod Rumble while welcoming April from Overpass.wav as their new manager. With the momentum they’ve built, new music in 2025 will be piping hot.
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Yikes
Boasting an eclectic style that fuses deep, broken, and percussive sounds, Wongutha artist Yikes is first up on Butter Sessions Label to release new tunes this year. Fresh from high-profile performances like Boiler Room and RTRFM's Full Frequency, Yikes announced an EP collaboration with DJ PGZ titled Come Round, due early 2025. The Yikes & DJ PGZ B2B is described as an “East-meets-west 7-track epic”, combining the skills and rep of the talented Wongutha DJ and his Gunai/Kurnai & Yorta Yorta peer. When Yikes isn’t performing or releasing to Soundcloud, he can be found leading a First Nations DJ course and running co-founded design studio Nani Creative.
Kayps
Solidified as one of The Music’s Annual ‘Artists To Watch’ for 2025, Walmatjarri and Bunuba rapper Kayps is proving just that. When asked by The Music about what was in store for the new year, Kayps (real name Kurrungaya Bieundurry) promised the holy trinity of artist gifts: more music than 2024, more live shows, and to “hopefully” start a new project.
“After experimenting behind the scenes a bit in 2024, I’m really excited for what we have in store for everyone this year!”
Currently, Kayps is in the running for Triple J Unearthed’s current contest to open for Denzel Curry in Australia after submitting one of his original rap verses over the ‘Denzel Curry comp freestyle beat’.
He has also teased an upcoming track to Facebook titled Up To Something - “it is my next single with Calvin Bennett, and funnily enough with you mentioning him, Wesley Black as the feature (Kayps has collaborated with Black in the past). This track is coming very very very soon with a final video to tie off the trilogy we’ve worked on.”
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Pond
While West Coast genre-bending rockers POND have already announced a stacked regional Australia tour for 2025, the five-piece also posted a cryptic and slightly (very) unhinged photo to Instagram in the first week of January, citing “2025 at the Pond Studio”. As one commenter puts it best: “Album 11 gonna be some serious sh*t.”
Daisy Park
Unearthed High Yearbook alumni Daisy Park have also baptised their Instagram feed with a hint of whats to come for the new year. “2025 is gonna be the biggest for Daisy Park yet, we cannot wait to show you what we’ve got coming up, but for now, have a happy new year!” The band wrapped up their post with the four-letter tease “fun news coming soon… x”
A little birdy suggests that new Daisy Park may be out sooner than we think, with some tunes expected early this year. You can also catch the four-piece in their element as soon as 31st Jan at their Endless Slymer slot alongside Sly Withers. Daisy Park are also set to play Nannup Music Festival on Feb 29th and Hyper Fest on March 29th.
Ghost Care
Another Perth fav and Endless Slymer act is Ghost Care, who promise not only new music, but have introduced a new member. Original members Beau Torrance and Luke Del Fante announced Emma Joan as the official band bassist in the first week of January. The band teased online with the announcement: “New year, new pic, new member, new…”
With their latest single Better Off having debuted on Thursday (16th Jan), we will speaking to the three-piece real soon about what’s to come. Stay tuned!
Cecilia
Alt-pop artist Cecilia is starting 2025 with her new single Lemonade, launching at a special Fringe show on February 8th. The self-confessed “inner-goblin colonel” described the upcoming release as an endearing pang of nostalgia for the lemonade her mum would make her when sick as a kid. “ If anyone does this for me now, I straight up turn into a PUDDLE”, she said of the citrusy gesture. Lemonade will debut live at Cecilia’s old stomping ground, Perth State Theatre Courtyard, or can be found on streaming in early Feb.
Spacey Jane
For those living under a rock - national treasures Spacey Jane are back after a year-long hiatus, set to follow up their sophomore release Here Comes Everybody with a new album on May 9th. Upcoming album If That Makes Sense is set to juxtapose elements of pop and grunge. You can catch a glimpse of what’s to come via their latest single All The Noise.
Last Quokka
Freo punk rock outfit Last Quokka are soundtracking what is looking like another politically exhausting year, with their sixth album due for release in March via Valve Records.
“It's thematically probably more a class album,” Frontman Trent Rojahnt told The Music last year.
“It was kind of like thematically about “We're sick of this. F**k you. We want a new way of doing things.
I think that theme is driven a lot by faster music. So we've probably got a lot faster, a little bit louder, a lot bigger. And that kind of just packs that kind of punch of like “We're pissed off and we're not going to stop yelling about it.”
The album will join alongside a big year of touring, with the band supporting DZ Deathrays this February, and Peep Tempel in March and April. LQ ended 2024 on a high, with their self-titled Quokk Fest and a set at Moving Different Festival.
Karnivool
Progressive metal icons Karnivool have hinted at their return to the studio with a potential release for 2025. After reigniting fan excitement with the Tri Continental Drift tour and 2024 live shows, the band is collaborating with long-time producer Forrester Savell who contributed to 2005 album Themata and 2009 follow-up Sound Awake. The suggested 2025 release follows their 2021 single, All It Takes. We’re keeping our fingers crossed.
Adrian Dzvuke
Afropop trailblazer Adrian Dzvuke recapped a stellar 2024, including international shows and creative tinkering with stars like Tame Impala, Golden Features, and Hermitude. Under Dzvuke’s MASSIVE 2024 wrap-up via socials, the singer slipped in that he would “promise lots of music and fun stuff next year.”
Dzvuke recently closed out New Years in WA with Ice Cream Factory Summer Festival.
Old Mervs
Old Mervs, new songs; the boys are back with their debut album slated for 21st March. The 11-track self-titled project contains already-released hits such as …Parched, See You Again, And What You’ve Lost. Recorded in Byron Bay with producer Chris Collins (Royel Otis, Teenage Dads), the duo of David House and Henry Carrington-Jones are planning to lean into their signature 90s inspired surf-rock sound.
“It’s written for them as much as it’s written for us.” Carrington-Jones said of the upcoming project.
Noah Dillon
Indie-rock singer-songwriter Noah Dillon has been quietly crafting new music for 2025, that is, until posting a hair and career update. “2025 is gonna be all gas, fresh energy, new songz, no more fluff.”
Dillon spent 2024 promoting EP Soft via a national tour. Standout single He’s A Lad garnered huge streaming and airplay, serving as Dillon’s anti-misogynist manifesto. “It’s also about masculinity being tied to emotional suppression instead of finding strength in vulnerability and love.” He said on Instagram. “ But it’s mainly about a guy who really pissed me off at the pub.”
Pendulum
Drum-and-bass legends Pendulum are poised to dominate 2025 (or we can only hope they will). While details remain scarce, the band hinted at the possibility of a new album in a recent interview with NME, describing their creative process as “finding the balance between nostalgia and evolution.” They’ve also announced headline shows in the UK, sparking hope for a broader international tour.
2024 was bittersweet for Pendulum, marked by triumphant performances at Reading and Leeds alongside the crushing news of former member Ben Verse’s cancer diagnosis. On the collaborative front, the band teamed up with Joey Valence & Brae for the genre-blending hit Napalm.
This piece of content has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body
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