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

Justine Keating, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Red Paintings, Teal, We Lost The Sea
The dominance of theatrics and over-dramatics in Teal and The Red Paintings’ performances were certainly enough to grab one’s attention, but it was the absence of any pretension and a modest display of brilliant musicianship that set We Lost The Sea’s set apart from the other two performances.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Thirty Seconds To Mars - Love Lust Faith + Dreams
Leto has aimed far too high with this one, and clearly forgotten the art of subtlety.
Features / Music
Paint It Red
"I put all my time into this album. I put my whole life on the line; my girlfriend left me, stupid shit happened because I was just so relentless with the sound and what I wanted to achieve, but you need to do that in art I think."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Free Time - Free Time
What we have here is the perfect recipe for yet another summery lo-fi bedroom-pop record.
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Album Review: The Red Paintings - The Revolution Is Never Coming
It’s when TRP pull the breaks a touch that the band’s musicality is at its best.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Solkyri - Are You My Brother?
While Solkyri are undoubtedly brilliant musicians, unfortunately Are You My Brother? isn’t all too memorable an album when compared to the plethora of artists exploring similar sounds.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Fabels - Zimmer
Save for these lesser moments when the conviction begins to falter, Fabels have created something beautifully otherworldly.
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Album Review: Hailer - Another Way
What makes Another Way so impressive is both its variety and its arrangement; these elements shed light on what a damn fine bunch of musicians Hailer are.
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Album Review: Standish/Carlyon - Deleted Scenes
What Standish/Carlyon have created is not an album, but a work of aural art.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Brightly - Beginnings & Endings
The entire album is brilliantly put together and not once does it feel contrived.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Om, Dead China Doll, Lyyar
It’s hard to know how to feel after experiencing so much intensity in one evening, and it’s not often that exiting a venue can feel so surreal.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Funeral For A Friend, Relentless, Perspectives
Bands like Funeral For A Friend can get by simply on nostalgic value, but the amount they butchered their earlier catalogue made it hard to even enjoy that aspect. Bluntly put, their performance was a let-down.