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

Sevana Ohandjanian, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Ash, Skipping Girl Vinegar, Charlie Horse
The show didn’t end with the album, as Ash returned to stage for a seven-song set, ending on a electrifying Burn Baby Burn, a reminder that where they began and where they are now isn’t so far apart and that there’s hopefully much more to come.
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Live Review: The Stabs, The Holy Soul, Treatment
The night was proof once more that you just can’t go wrong with The Stabs and The Holy Soul on the same bill.
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Live Review: Jakes Bugg, Drunk Mums
By the time the set closed out with the uplifting dancealong jig of Lightning Bolt, there was no doubt that the ordinary-looking boy on stage is set for extraordinary things.
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Album Review: About Group - Between The Walls
Between The Walls is a valiant effort to capture the mysterious energy of collective performance on record. About Group don’t entirely succeed, but there are plenty of sweet moments to keep you entertained.
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Album Review: The D.O.T. - Diary
The D.O.T. were aiming for the allure and pop aesthetics of Pet Shop Boys, but landed somewhere closer to a Human League tribute act restricted to suburban garage performances.
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Album Review: Miles Kane - Don't Forget Who You Are
This is Kane bigger and louder than on his debut.
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Album Review: Savages - Silence Yourself
It’s refreshing to hear a band that commits to its influences but twists them into something vibrating with life.
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Album Review: Hanni El Khatib - Head In The Dirt
In half an hour, Khatib evokes primal emotions in listeners that one can only imagine will be compounded by the live experience, a scenario in which these songs will undoubtedly flourish
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Album Review: Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Floating Coffin is waiting for you to dance, to shake alongside the jaunty guitar lines and to jump in time with Dwyer’s yelps.
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Album Review: Hurts - Exile
There’s so much one wants to love about Hurts, and they remain unique in a UK landscape littered with X Factor contestants, but Exile doesn’t quite live up to the high expectations.
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Live Review: Ed Sheeran, Passenger & Gabrielle Aplin
His adorable naïve charm was never more evident than when singing Wake Me Up to a stuffed koala thrown on stage.
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Live Review: Tomahawk & Jay Katz
It wouldn’t be a Tomahawk show without a curveball and, after a languid cover of George Jones’ country hit Just One More, the audience was left grinning and mellow.