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

James Dawson, Journalist

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Album Review: The Bronx - The Bronx IV
The world needs more bands like The Bronx – unflinchingly brash without coming across as contrived or arrogant. IV is a winner.
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Album Review: The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Those looking for some jubilant noises and wafting melodies built on top of a grunge-influenced rhythm section, you should find the tracks to your tastes.
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Album Review: Green Day - ¡Tre!
¡Tre! is an album for Green Day die hards. The songs are good, but have all been heard before.
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Album Review: Green Day - ¡Dos!
There simply aren’t any songs on ¡Dos! that will remain in your head days after listening.
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Album Review: Redcoats - Redcoats
A simply stunning rock’n’roll debut.
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Album Review: The Sword - Apocryphon
Overall this is a great album to leave your normal existence and travel elsewhere for 45 minutes.
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Album Review: Don Broco - Priorities
Don Broco have successfully created a cohesive and textured album that hits all the markers necessary for a great album.
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Album Review: Axewound - Vultures
Vultures is, with a few exceptions, a dirge-filled angry metal record that the two frontmen might not have been able to fully realise with their main projects.
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Album Review: Alberta Cross Songs Of Patience
On their second album, Songs Of Patience, British soul rockers Alberta Cross go for a polished sound focusing on succinct riffs and guitar hooks, whilst still strongly emphasising frontman Petter Ericson Stakee’s eerie vocal melodies
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Album Review: Regular John - Strange Flowers
Strange Flowers is everything a rock album should be: honest, edgy and damn right powerful.
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Album Review: Green Day - Uno
Uno is Green Day moving forward and challenging both themselves and their audience.
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Album Review: The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts
Chasing Ghosts, whilst not a step up from Youngbloods, is at least a step sideways on a similar path and direction to that which thrust them into the spotlight, and the songs here are some of the strongest the band has written.