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

Bob Baker Fish, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Prince Fatty - Hollie Cook In Dub
What Cook’s original album sounds like is irrelevant. This is a whole new hypnotic beast.
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Album Review: Warren H Williams & The Warumungu Songmen - Winanjjara: The Song Peoples Sessions
A really unique hybrid of influences, blending the traditional, his own country style and electronic programming...
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Album Review: Wantok Vol1: Sounds Of Australasia And Melanesia
Rising Central Australian stars Iwantja appear alongside the likes of David Bridie, Telek and The Phylonasa Bamboo Band over the course of 20 eclectic regional songs that will stir your soul.
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Album Review: Filfla - Flip Tap
Whilst Flip Tap is an inspired burst of sugary electronic pop, it’s also equally strange and inventive.
Features / Music
Bombaystic Sounds
"The skipper is this slightly corrupt Love Boat captain," says Andy Williamson of his role/character in Bombay Royale. "He’s more decadent than evil, really."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: dEUS - Corner Hotel
"Whilst for many of us this show was about marking something off a list, and as much as we tried to pigeonhole them dEUS aren’t simply a nostalgia act. The injection of new blood has been an injection of life."
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Album Review: Max Crumbs Maidenhair
Maidenhair is a gentle soup of ingredients, at times pitched like a seasick swell, at others taking on a lazy R&B groove before delving into a noisy electro rock.
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Album Review: Groundation Building An Ark
Groundation are a lot more than you initially expect, and despite the stylistic mélange, the band are very much self-assured and offering something new to a genre filled with pale imitators. Just don’t hold where they come from against them
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Album Review: The Minimal Wave Tape: Vol 2
There’s a certain innocent charm to the music, built with cheap synths, primitive drum machines and artists who were still teaching themselves to use this new technology.
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Album Review: Metal Dance: Industrial/Post - Punk/EBM: Classics & Rarities 80 - 83
It’s primitive, relentless and often quite minimal music. It’s also amazing.
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Album Review: Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972 - 1981
Most of these songs were written at a time when coming out was not just career suicide but downright dangerous.
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Album Review: Thinking In Textures
They all sip on their coffees for a few moments, lost in thought about the enigma that is Chet Faker. “He’s a little bit of a modern lover too,” offers George, “songs about lust, sex and the ladies, but he does do it with style. I’ll give him that.“