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

Darren Collins, Journalist

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Album Review: John Legend - Love In The Future
Another slick effort from America’s pre-eminent soul man.
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Album Review: Riva Starr - Hand In Hand
A joyous album, sounding more 2003 than 2013, on Hand In Hand Riva Starr throws caution to the wind, making the music he wants to hear. We do too.
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Album Review: Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
With a superbly versatile voice, Robin Thicke has his own lane when it comes to feelgood, somewhat banal pop music; it’s just a shame he is sometimes pushed into far more disposable sounds.
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Album Review: Mayer Hawthorne - Where Does This Door Go
While sticking to his common theme of women and their various states of confidence, innocence, brokenness and conceitedness Mayer has added a huge amount of variation to his delivery, resulting in his finest album to date
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Album Review: Wale - The Gifted
By choice or by coercion Wale continues to try balancing both sides of the rap ledger and as such will find plenty of fans, though few who will enjoy The Gifted in its entirety.
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Album Review: J. Cole - Born Sinner
Though not the classic he threatens to create, Born Sinner remains intelligent, middle-classy mainstream hip hop, a cut above the dumb shit that dominates the genre in 2013.
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Album Review: Tricky - False Idols
So in many ways, the addition of multiple guest vocalists aside, False Idols is business as usual for Tricky – another unusual addition to an unusual catalogue.
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Album Review: Talib Kweli - Prisoner Of Conscious
Though the set does run out of steam a little in its second half, possibly off the back of his constant changing of focus, tracks like Human Mic and It Only Gets Better remind us why we fell in love with Kweli in the first place.
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Album Review: Kid Cudi - Indicud
With as many missteps as triumphs, Indicud leaves us wishing Cudi would just sit still for a minute to deliver on his prodigious talent.
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Album Review: Snoop Lion - Reincarnated
Snoop Lion has made a statement with Reincarnated; and though there are a few absolute stinkers on board, he has, with the help of some heavyweight friends, rolled up a surprisingly palatable experiment.
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Album Review: Bonobo - The North Borders
Another remarkable album that deserves all the accolades it will no doubt receive.
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Album Review: Jamie Lidell - Jamie Lidell
Though fans of Sam Sparro would definitely find some joy in Jamie Lidell the album, this white boy’s voyage into jheri curl-juiced electro-funk is nowhere as commercial, and infinitely more enjoyable.
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