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

Adam Wilding, Journalist

Adam Wilding

Adam 'Wildman' Wilding has been a contributor with The Music since 2006, after working his way onto the team via the readers’ letters and spending a short time in head office learning from veterans Andrew P Street, Lachlan Marks and Sarah Norris. Adam has covered numerous Aussie festivals, done countless album reviews and thinks Aussie music is the best.

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Bob Moses - Days Gone By
"Delivering deep groove and progressive house influences throughout"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Calvin Love - Super Future
"Synth effects, drum samples and live instrumentation (along with an amiable squawk) that eventually endears although it takes a while to get there."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: LA Priest - Inji
"'Inji' is a mixed bag of emotions, sounding like everything that ever came out between 1981 and Daft Punk’s 'Discovery' era."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Jaakko Eino Kalevi
"Kalevi’s music can be best described as visceral groove, or haunting pop, that’s eccentric yet ideal for that occasional lazy highway drive."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Pins - Wild Nights
"Behind the middle-finger-reliant marketing strategy is a bundle of thoughtful surf and grunge-pop songs."
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Album Review: The Cribs -- For All My Sisters
"It’s a pretty great effort overall that improves with a few listens. "
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Album Review: Duke Garwood - Heavy Love
"Quiet and haunting but again worthy of attention"
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Album Review: BC Camplight - How To Die In The North
"Quietly brilliant."
Features / Music
The Music Writers' Poll 2014: Adam Wilding
Freelancer
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Various - If I Stay Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The album is let down by the very middle-of-the-road acoustic and piano ballads.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: SPOD - Taste The Sadness
Irony and humour aplenty
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Ty Segall - Manipulator
Manipulator’s strength is in its feeling of spontaneity and unpredictability
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