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

Bob Baker Fish, Journalist

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Album Review: Dan Friel - Total Folklore
It’s the audio equivalent of overdosing on red cordial; pure, woozy, adrenalised hyperactive euphoria, which while it may leave you with a slight headache, won’t have you regretting a single minute you spend with it.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Swans & Christoph Hahn
Many bands fade away with age, but for Swans it’s only made them more menacing.
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Album Review: Tunji Oyelana - A Nigerian Retrospective: 1966-79
If you’re ready to move beyond the cult of Kuti, into a more complex and frequently surprising yet highly funky realm, then Oyelana is the man for you.
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Album Review: Marc Romboy & Ken Ishii - Taiyo
With weird skittering beats, and bits of field recordings interacting with synth lines, this is really interesting, forward-thinking techno music that still manages to pack a punch.
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Album Review: The Dadacomputer - The Birth Of 5XOD
But it’s clear there’s no recipe here. These guys are way out on the ledge, discovering it as they go.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Rokia Traoré
All the while the audience marvels at her beauty, her remarkable voice and the incredible music and vitality that pours forth from this amazing woman.
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Album Review: The Funkees - Dancing Time
"The Funkees were true to their name – there’s no political grandstanding or social commentary, this is pure Afro funk designed to get your arse on the dance floor."
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Album Review: Kiki Gyan - 24 Hours In A Disco: 1978 - 82
Then of course there are Gyan’s incredible keys, which really elevate the tunes from the more derivative commercial disco of the time.
Features / Music
Writer's Poll - Bob Baker Fish
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Album Review: Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Music this complex and this immersive is rare. Pray you survive.
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Album Review: Omar Souleyman - Australis2012
It’s undoubtedly organic music, without studio spit and polish, yet somehow that conveys authenticity, and as a result you wouldn’t want it any other way.
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Album Review: Ben Klock - Fabric 66
Which is kind of the key to the mix: not huge names but the combination of great tunes and percussive repetition create this incredible hypnotic and at times out-of-body experience.