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

Danielle O'Donohue, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dan Sultan - Blackbird
This is a big step forward for Dan Sultan.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jurassic 5, Total Eclipse, Chasm Sound System, NTSC, True Vibenation
Jurassic 5 is a voice that makes hip hop happier and healthier. Long may they continue.
Features / Music
They're Golden
"We are truly misfits when it comes to conventionalism in the music industry."
Reviews / Arts
Sweet Charity
The flaws, though, were minor and this venture deserves support not just for what it represents but also for the quality of their debut show.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Big Star's Third
Fans even got to hear some Big Star classics after the encore, but this was a night to revel in the brilliance of Chilton and give credit to an album that could’ve easily have been forgotten by all but a handful of Big Star obsessives.
Reviews / Arts
Ockham's Razor
The joy born out of this piece’s slapstick balancing act caps off a thrilling night in the theatre.
Reviews / Arts
Forklift
Though not normally thought of as a piece of machinery that’s graceful and lithe, the forklift here almost counts as another dancer, effortlessly pirouetting around the industrial space.
Features / Music
Eyes On The Road
"It probably took me four years to do this album."
Features / Arts
Everything Flows
"I think the fact you can now come from Liverpool or Huddersfield and you can appear as a BBC newsreader or someone who has intellectual credibility is because those prejudices were done away by the Beatles."
Features / Arts
Physics Is A Danger
"The audience are sitting there watching, they’re listening and they’re also thinking conceptually so we work very, very hard to merge those three different areas together."
Reviews / Arts
Am I
Visually stunning and thought-provoking, Am I’s own journey is only just beginning.
Features / Music
I'm In Love With That Song
"It had a very nice mix of being melodic, radio-friendly and populist in a weird way with mixing in this really intense, hard to describe feeling of longing and wistfulness that’s not the standard fare of pop."