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

Bob Baker Fish, Journalist

Features / Music
The Wedding Singer
"I felt so proud that these people, who don’t understand the words I am singing, were still touched by their meaning, their power and their genuine feeling, so that they moved and danced."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Food - Mercurial Fish
The key here is that they’re never searching. It feels considered, like they’re creating new forms and updating a genre consumed by the past.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Hot 8 Brass Band - The Life And Times Of…
The Life And Times Of… is a post-Katrina album; tunes reference Mardi Gras, traditions, and the band’s love of the city, none better than Steamin’ Blues, from fallen member Williams.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Harmonic 313, Vladislav Delay, Tantrums
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, The Bombay Royale
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
Four decades on and he’s still playing with matches.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Abyssinians, Johnny Clarke, Iration Steppas, Kingfisha
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Om - Advaitic Songs
It feels like so much more, particularly when they escape the heavy riffage of their past, create something new and transcend.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Orb (Feat Lee Scratch Perry) - The Orbserver In The Star House
Ultimately it’s all just a little sad.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Matthew Brown, Krakatau, Hessian, Jailer, Satyrs
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Patrice Sciortino - Percupulsions
There is something hypnotic about these experimental, quite minimal works.
Reviews / Arts
The House Of Dreaming
While some of the language may pass over their heads, the sheer joy they experience at the visual and tactile nature of the house prevents them taking much else in anyway.