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

Matt O'Neill, Journalist

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Album Review: Sparks - Hippopotamus
"Reverb-heavy indie-pop that sounds remarkably of a piece with their contemporary acolytes."
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Album Review: Tony Buck - Unearth
"With a singular vocabulary, it still conveys different moods of tension, peace and growth."
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Album Review: Dead Cross - Dead Cross
"It's a rewarding album for all concerned."
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Album Review: Kardajala Kirridarra - Kardajala Kirridarra
"...Their self-titled debut album is beautiful, expressive, unique, elegant, hypnotic and heartbreaking."
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Album Review: The Kite String Tangle - The Kite String Tangle
"One of the best Australian electronic albums in some time."
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Album Review: Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm
"Another high watermark from an artist who probably owes the world a dud."
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Album Review: Lapalux - Ruinism
"Quite a remarkable listening experience that fully captures the same weightless sensation of the record's key inspiration."
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Album Review: Stone Sour - Hydrograd
"At 15 songs, it's packed with tunes. But, it may have benefited from some trimming."
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Album Review: Goldie - The Journey Man
"It's polished, warm, celebratory and kinetic."
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Album Review: INVSN - The Beautiful Stories
"The album's tight, genuine, memorable and evocative."
Features / Music
Bill Frisell Does His Own Thing Regardless Of Naysayers
"I'm actually not trying to look back. I'm trying to go into the future. I'm trying to move myself forward."
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Album Review: Bernard Fanning - Brutal Dawn
"Across the record, there's an unpredictable air to the album's instrumental arrangements that proves entrancing."