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

Sevana Ohandjanian, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Spandau Ballet - The Story - The Very Best Of Spandau Ballet
There’s a lot to discover; proof they were a lot more than the hits that have become their legacy.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Cold War Kids - Hold My Home
"It isn’t enough to push them onto centre stage"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The 2 Bears - The Night Is Young
It’s strangely nostalgic music
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory?
"If one ever needed a guide to what were undoubtedly Oasis’ glory years, this is it"
Features / Music
Keep On Carrying On
"Trying to work inside those restraints was fucking annoying to be honest."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Christopher Owens - A New Testament
A New Testament is sweet, almost saccharine, but Owens is endlessly endearing.
Reviews / Film & TV
Magic In The Moonlight
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Bear In Heaven - Time Is Over One Day Old
The unifying factor is Jon Philpot’s sometimes nasal, yet always intriguing vocals
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Ed Sheeran - X
At its best, it’s vaguely insightful lyricism on broken hearts.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: 5 Seconds Of Summer - 5 Seconds Of Summer
They could spend more time exploring the broader scope of the genre they’re emulating. They could stand to drop the American accents too.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kasabian 48:13
48:13 isn’t the start of a musical revolution the way Kasabian dream it to be
Reviews / Live
Live Review: 5 Seconds Of Summer, Mike Dignam, Little Sea
By encore, the stage was scattered with plush toy and bra debris, and the underdog lyrics of Try Hard saw them out with an uplifting sensation that things are only going to get bigger from here.