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

Bob Baker Fish, Journalist

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Album Review: No Zu - Life
Life’s references lie in the past, in the post-punk, no wave hurdy gurdy of the early ‘80s, yet where this music was often grim and urgent, No Zu mine the energy, and harness it with a cheeky sense of humour and wide-eyed optimism.
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Live Review: Tortoise, Grails, New War
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Album Review: Ash Wednesday & Friends - Love And Other Numbers 1980-1984
It’s universally sparse and austere, with an experimental approach to synthesiser, a punk rock spirit and an abundance of humour.
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Tim & Eric Awesome Australian Tour
All your favourites were there. On video. Spaghett popped up from behind some pot plants and scared Eric to death. Killing him.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: El Gran Combo Puerto Rico, El Barrio
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Album Review: Battlesnake - Your Life Is On Fire
This is the key to Battlensake: their enthusiasm and energy brings the party, yet their uncompromising technique and diverse structures means you won’t hate yourself in the morning.
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Album Review: A Cloakroom Assembly - Movement/Time
The key to this work is its accessibility. It’s weird as hell, and Tee employs multiple and reasonably divergent techniques, but the sounds are universally lush and welcome.
Features / Arts
Tea Bagging
“As I got older I have to be more aware of what I say because I can get in trouble... I say the wrong thing to the wrong person there’s sexual harassment. Back in the day I wouldn’t care if I said F U to someone in front of a thirteen year old, but now I don’t want to influence them."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Crispin Glover
Stewart appears naked in a giant clamshell and spends much of the film being jacked off by a naked woman with an elephant’s head.
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Album Review: Shane Fahey - Twin Korg: Winter Drip Code
Fahey’s decades of experiments with analogue synthesis have resulted in a rare kind of control over the savage beast.
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Album Review: The Invisible - Rispah
It’s a melancholic album, Okumu’s lush, near whispered vocals are heartfelt and reflective, like an exhausted cousin to the angelic sounds of Rob Dickinson in ‘90s almost-shoegaze UK outfit Catherine Wheel.
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Album Review: Kevin Purdy - Illumination
It’s Purdy at his most experimental, yet also most creative, on an exciting risk-taking album that really pushes his artistic and creative boundaries.