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

Anna Rose, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Bench Press - Not The Past, Can't Be The Future
"An enigma of a release that... still manages to penetrate the eardrums and leave a suitably filthy residue."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Saboteurs - Help Us Stranger
"Poetically profound, melodically mad, [and] instrumentally ingenious."
Features / Music
Baroness: The Rehabilitating Feeling Of Airing Grievances With Yourself In Public
John Dyer Baizley of heavy-metal outfit Baroness explains to Anna Rose how the band were driven forward with their fifth album 'Gold & Grey' by a kind of "weird anxiety".
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Chris Shiflett - Hard Lessons
"[S]imple story, basic chords, no frills, all thrills."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Black Star Dancing
"[Only Gallagher] could get away with something so cosmically conflicting."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Karnivool
"[A]s tight and as relevant as ever."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Silversun Pickups - Widow's Weeds
"Dry and uninspiring."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jimmy Barnes - My Criminal Record
"Jimmy Barnes ticks all the boxes as a singer, songwriter, and true blue Aussie."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Eat Your Heart Out - Florescence
"[Eat Your Heart Out's] music will appeal to everyone."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Little May - Blame My Body
"An unapologetic and powerful release."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sevendust, Red Hook, Reliqa
"Immerse yourself in their music, and you’ll come out feeling something more than human."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Local Natives - Violet Street
"Instead of being a rich Tim Tam of flavour and experience... all the band seem to come up with are soggy biscuits."
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