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

Roshan Clerke, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Big Thief @ Princess Theatre, Brisbane
"Hearing their music performed live, it becomes clear that the recorded versions of their songs are simply snapshots, frozen in time."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Killers @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Here's what went down at the first stop of The Killers' 2022 Australian tour.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Aldous Harding, H. Hawkline
"Her presence was confrontational in the best sense of the word: she invited the audience to examine our own response to the music, and to consider the absurdity of searching for truth in art, or in someone else."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: June Jones / Pop Music For Normal Women
"Jones finds beauty in the liminal and the divergent."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: REVIEW: Highlights From BIGSOUND 2022 Night Three
"Despite their playful bluster, the band seem humbled by the enthusiastic reception this evening."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Perfume Genius - 'Ugly Season'
"A ground-breaking and difficult art object that challenges categorisation."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Angel Olsen - 'Big Time'
"A radical shift for a songwriter whose songs have previously burned with an insatiable intensity."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Sharon Van Etten - 'We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong'
"We are encouraged to embrace the mystery, surrendering to disorientation and upheaval."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Robert Forster, The Garbage & The Flowers
"Somehow, even though it was only Forster playing an acoustic guitar, phantom traces of that striped sunlight sound hung suspended in the air – outlines of oboe, snatches of strings, ghost notes."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Big Thief - 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You'
"Thrilling, terrifying and terrific."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Cate Le Bon - 'Pompeii'
"Eternity abides in each moment; the wisdom Le Bon offers is centuries old."
News / Music
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Amyl & The Sniffers' 'Comfort To Me' Demands Your Attention
Our annual writers’ poll results are in and there’s one band that dominated across the board – Melbourne punk rockers Amyl & The Sniffers. In 2021, they released ‘Comfort To Me’, which has been voted our Album Of The Year. Here’s why…