Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

The Reviews Are In

Daft Punk, Parquet Courts, Vampire Weekend and more...

Classixx - Hanging Garden

"Classixx will blow plenty of glitter on dancefloors with these club tunes."

Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle

"The tunes lack the versatility of her earlier releases, giving the album a 'this song sounds kinda like the last one' feel."

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold

"Light Up Gold is a fine introduction to a bunch of intelligent dudes living it large and dissecting the ensuing carnage for our listening pleasure, a classic win-win."

Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - You Are Everything

"This is a record of often intricate interlaced layers. Sometimes you can see where they overlap, but often it's just a liquid whole – listen as Brother Moon Sister Sun just ebbs away."

Talib Kweli - Prisoner Of Conscious

"Tracks like Human Mic and It Only Gets Better remind us why we fell in love with Kweli in the first place."

The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer

"It hits hard and grabs on tight from the very beginning and only loosens its grip long enough here and there to make the next squeeze that much more intense."

REM - Green (Deluxe Edition)

"The extra disc here documents one of their live peaks, from the 11 months they spent touring the album and becoming a truly world-class attraction."

Wire - Change Becomes Us

"Wire have not only reinvented themselves, but have transcended beyond their 2011 album Red Barked Tree and raised the bar even higher."

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

"It hits an emotional chord that's hard to explain but with angelic choirs, arpeggios of harpsichord and indecipherably picturesque lyrics, you won't find this kind of uplifting despair anywhere else."

Airbourne - Black Dog Barking

"Black Dog Barking is a boisterous aural assault that should justifiably have tears of joy welling up in the eyes of many a rock tragic."

Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Light

"Ghostpoet has made an album to listen to through the best headphones you can find so you can savour all the small moments, the glitches and hums, the delicate pieces of phrasing that make up this wholly thrilling album."

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

"Title says it all. This is the damaged romanticism of The National distilled."

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

"The French duo's next tour promises an entirely different experience from the lauded Pyramid."