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

Justine Keating, Journalist

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Album Review: The Starry Field - Back On The Milks
What Myers deems as a potential overshare makes for a loveably real album – one that has been constructed with a brilliant cautiousness.
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Album Review: The Chemist - Ballet In The Badlands
For what they’re trying to achieve throughout a majority of Ballet In The Badlands, The Chemist are lacking the necessary audacity to pull it off. It’s when they strip things back that they really impress.
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Album Review: Merchandise - Totale Nite
Totale Nite sees Merchandise rise above the hefty handful of Joy Division copy-cats and proudly exemplify themselves as being their own brilliant creation.
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Album Review: Mudhoney - Vanishing Point
Twenty-five years on and Mudhoney are still full of playful vim and vigour.
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Album Review: Chelsea Light Moving - Chelsea Light Moving
Chelsea Light Moving is an incredibly hypnotising album, but it’s something of a letdown. At no point does it ever tip the scale and become exciting.
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Album Review: The Blackwater Fever - The Depths
What drives the band is their raw execution, which they consistently carry out through the course of the album.
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Album Review: How To Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion
It comes as absolutely no surprise that the production on Welcome Oblivion is near flawless, but How To Destroy Angels still have a little bit of work to put in before they can lose the Nine Inch Nails reference point.
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Album Review: Brighter Later - The Wolves
The Wolves is hauntingly complex; yet still sounds effortless and organic, making it nothing short of a masterpiece.
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Album Review: Palma Violets - 180
I never really understood what N’Sync meant by ‘dirty pop’, but that description seems to fit Palma Violets perfectly.
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Album Review: Joe Gideon & The Shark - Freakish
While being weird for the sake of being weird doesn’t always work in their favour, there are some fantastic moments when their eccentricity is undeniably charming.
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Album Review: Firearms - We Are... Firearms
We Are... Firearms clocks up a mere 27 minutes or so, but Firearms have loaded this fleeting time with plenty of punch and made sure there’s not a dull moment on the record.
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Album Review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Eyes Like The Sky
Eyes Like The Sky sees the narrative mingle perfectly with the instrumentation, creating a world you can almost see.