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

Ben Preece, Journalist

Features / Music
Gobbledygook
“Being a debut record, we don’t know how to feel about it, we’ve lived with it for so long – all the reviews have been really encouraging so far."
Features / Music
Not So New Now
"We’re not trying to make dance pop music but we are trying to make stuff that people will like live, it’s not like serious musicians sitting in the corner stroking our moustaches thinking that we can reinvent the wheel."
Features / Music
Magic Happens
"The reaction you have is a physical, organic, visceral experience that is occurring from soundwaves and you’re changed for it. And you’re spinning out because of it – it’s a beautiful thing that keeps this music business world spinning around. It still is mystical to me and I fucking love the shit out of it!”
Features / Music
As Good As A Holiday
“The type of record it was dictated that the live show had to change. So yeah, I put on a gold suit every night like an idiot and have a lot of fun."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Tegan And Sara - Heartthrob
Another interesting chapter in the Tegan And Sara discography that, as a whole, is one of the finest in modern music.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Local Natives - Hummingbird
It’s a remarkable record in its subtlety and one that reveals itself steadily to become utterly beautiful the more spins you give it.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Django Django, The Griswolds, Palms
"Django Django’s sound picks up where the likes of The Rapture and Klaxons left off, without really sounding like either."
Features / Music
The Coming Together Of Generations
"David and I also dance – the show has a really nice dramatic art, combining modern theatre and modern dance and, I guess, modern music."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Hot Chip & World's End Press
As they quickly run through an encore that includes stomper I Feel Better and festival anthem Let Me Be Him, you know these stupidly talented Brits are only just getting started.
Features / Music
The Taste For Any Occasion
“I think it’s a strong record yeah, I made it and I still like listening to it."
Features / Music
Will Power
“Holland, of all places, is where it’s at for us,” the music of Will & The People is connecting all over the globe.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Coldplay, The Temper Trap