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

Emma Salisbury, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Tearing At The Seams
"It makes you feel a part of the experience - the hurt, the joy, even the creation of the music itself."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Ocean Alley - Chiaroscuro
"... This work explores both light and shade. In a confident step forward, Ocean Alley have crafted a seamless blend of the two..."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: What So Not - Not All The Beautiful Things
"A well-curated, well-rounded work on a bed of exquisite production."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: 50 Cent, AB Original, Baker Boy
"The rapper undoubtedly has a lot left to give musically and he gave it on the night, with a smile from ear to ear."
Features / Music
The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Emma Salisbury
Features / Music
Sounding Out The Unknown
"We sought the unknown and experimented with different ways to get there."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: J Cole, Bas, JID, EARTHGANG, Ari Lennox
"A true artist with an ethos and something to say."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Meg Mac, Georgia Fair, Xavier Dunn
"If that wasn't enough to bring a tear to the assorted crowd's eyes then nothing ever could."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Sonori - Sonori
"Challenges and satisfies its audience through a magical combination of electronic innovation and classical instrumentation."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Slum Sociable - Slum Sociable
"Earworms of pleasant, purposeful electronic innovation."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: This That
"One enthused punter decided to scale the vibrating tent and ended up hanging from the roof of That stage."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Gooch Palms, Pist Idiots, Totty
"'What a bunch of dumb cunts in Canberra,' they proposed. Confetti rained, the crowd concurred."
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