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

Gavin Butler, Journalist

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Live Review: MORRT 'Be There' (Sebastian Carter Remix)
Sebastian Carter's remix of MORRT's track 'Be There' is a decidedly club-happy track.
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Live Review: Mozart's Sister 'Enjoy'
Mozart's Sister is a greenhorn as far as her maple-leafed brethren go: but she's got the kind of flair that keeps one neck-a-neck with the best of them.
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Live Review: PREMIERE: Hatch 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' (Roy Ayers Cover)
Hatch himself describes it as 'rhythm and bass': taking the classic blues vibes of Roy Ayers and giving them a new-age tweak.
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Live Review: Joakim 'Bring Your Love' ft. The Rapture's Luke Jenner (Official Video)
The video for Parisian producer Joakim's 'Bring Your Love' is all chic. Glitz, glamour; white suits, black frames. It's utterly stylised and overtly staged.
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Live Review: Foster The People 'Best Friend' (Wave Racer Remix)
Waver Racer might just be enough to get you through winter. If nothing else, this Foster The People remix will be waiting by the time summer rears its head.
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LIVE REVIEW: Movement - 'Dark As Hell, Transcendental & Angelic'
Movement’s show at Oxford St’s ‘Spectrum’ was something like being inside the dark and literal heart of Sydney’s underground music scene.
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INTERVIEW: Safia
Hardly a week into their nationwide tour, Safia frontman and all round nice guy Ben Joseph took some time to chew the fat with us.
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TOUR ESSENTIALS: Glass Animals
Glass Animals are well and truly rearing their musical heads, here are some of the things that keep the band from breaking point.
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Live Review: Mykki Blanco 'She Gutta' (Official Video)
'She Gutta' is a cinematic video in the vein of Jay Z and Bey's 'RUN' pseudo-film—with a lot less tongue-in-cheek cheese and a lot more blood-in-teeth grit.
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Live Review: Riton 'The Same' ft. Irfane
A lesson in European languages: Riton is French slang for Henry—as in Rollins; the fifth; the octopus or, if you happen to be a world-renowned DJ, Smithson.
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Live Review: Kito & Reija Lee 'Starting Line'
Kito & Reija Lee are, predictably, a two-piece. A bit less predictable, though, is the blistering style with which they execute their craft.
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Live Review: Niia 'Seeing Red'
My first impressions of Niia were probably similar to those experienced by anyone else that's heard her sound. Namely: she's got a pretty brilliant voice.