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

Gavin Butler, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: LISTEN: Grades 'Freedom'
It's been a while between drinks for London switch-doctor SBTRKT. For those starting to feel the comedown, meet Grades.
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Live Review: LISTEN: Dream Koala 'Saturn Boy'
This is Dream Koala, the young Brazilian/Parisian crafting the kind of lonely pieces of sound to perfectly compliment those microwave dinners for one.
News / Music
Chrome Sparks 'Goddess' EP Revealed + Aus Tour Dates
'The Meaning Of Love' will have you swooning. The latest shard of glacial chillwave from Chrome Sparks feels like a breath of fresh mountain air.
Win / Win
WIN: Cults Australian Tour Double Passes
CULTS are back in the sunburnt country for the second time around, playing a string of their own, intimate sideshows.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: LISTEN: Lorde 'Tennis Court' (Flume Remix)
In the neighbourly spirit of ANZAC day, Australasian younglings and world-conquering beatmakers LORDE and FLUME have finally teamed up to play some ball.
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Live Review: LISTEN: Little Dragon 'Paris'
If there’s only one thing to be said for LITTLE DRAGON, which there isn’t, it’s that they have a keen knack for consistently producing interesting music.
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Live Review: WATCH: Blood Orange 'Uncle ACE' (Kindness Remix Video)
‘Uncle ACE’ is a tender lover, and he understands that it’s not the destination that matters, but the journey. In this case, that journey is all about love.
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Live Review: LISTEN: M83 'Wait' (Kygo Remix)
KYGO doesn’t cannonball headlong into the original, but the end result is capital: an uplifting, transcendent and genuinely hair-raising piece of sound.
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Live Review: LISTEN: Disciples 'Catwalk' (Bot & Astronomar Remix)
Main Course legends Bot & Astronomar's remix of Disciples' ’ ‘Catwalk’ feels like it’s building toward something... because it is. Wait for the drop.
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Live Review: Portugal. The Man 'Purple Yellow Red Blue' (Muneshine Remix)
Literally in the space of a second Munshine’s Portugal. The Man remix strikes a dreamy and nostalgic chord.
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Live Review: LISTEN: SZA ft. Chance The Rapper 'Childs Play'
At less than 25 years of age, self-proclaimed ‘glitter' hip hop artist SZA (Solana Rowe to her mother) has already earned a pretty slick track record.
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Live Review: LISTEN: Sleigh Bells ’Young Legends' (Jam City Mix)
Jam City’s remix of the Sleigh Bells single 'Young Legends' takes techno-friendly pop and shaves it until it resembles neither techno nor dance nor punk.
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