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

The Reviews Are In

Our thoughts on the latest records

Gossling - Harvest Of Gold

"Much like its cover art, Gossling's debut LP, Harvest Of Gold, bursts with colour."

Cut Copy - Free Your Mind

"We emerge feeling free and reborn."

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

"The layers will work themselves out over future listens, but there's plenty on Reflektor to warrant further spins."

Booka Shade - Eve

"It's what Booka Shade fans will have been waiting for."

Midlake - Antiphon

"Antiphon proves the ambition that always marked them out as folk-rock outsiders burns fiercely within them still, albeit with a new, crystalline focus."

M.I.A. - Matangi

"It's an astonishing record that mashes so many ideas culturally and musically and builds on her already impressive discography in all the right ways."

Survive This! - The Life You've Chosen

"Cliché-laden lyrics. Spineless riffs. Predictable rhythms. If this is how you have a mega-rocking time, then hey, you're in luck."

Tinie Tempah - Demonstration

"Only Shape, a mesmeric trip with a neat Big Sean guest spot, is worth more than a cursory listen. Avoid this."

Spiderbait - Spiderbait

"In the end it all feels like it's been done by the band before, and that they could've pushed some sonic boundaries or just crafted another truly great rock or pop tune."