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

Nic Addenbrooke, Journalist

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Album Review: Pikelet - Goodbye
"It’s the sound of a door slamming, both cathartic and shocking."
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Album Review: Little Simz - Grey Area
"The whole album is relentlessly deft and punches harder than a prizefighter fending off personal demons."
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Album Review: Tiny Ruins - Olympic Girls
"'Olympic Girls' is a tender feat of musicianship that politely asks you to listen rather than begging to be heard."
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Album Review: Thom Yorke - Suspiria (Music For The Luca Guadagnino Film)
"It’s a lattice of semi-irrelevant ambience and isolated SFX that gives 'Suspiria' a disconcerting feeling like it's the ghost of Radiohead rattling chains on a haunted house tour."
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Album Review: Last Dinosaurs - Yumeno Garden
"While intriguing and expansively lush, any subtleties are quickly engulfed like cookie crumbs falling onto a deep plush carpet."
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Album Review: Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - With Animals
"Inherently touching and darkly familiar, With Animals dulcet batch of misery is a slow-motion gut punch."
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Album Review: The Gametes - The Astronomical Calamities Of Comet Jones
"They flit from surf rock to gothic faster than you can sing space opera and with far more dramatic flair."
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Album Review: Tape/Off - Broadcast Park
"Malaise meets rage at its most percussive and poignant."
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Album Review: Evelyn Ida Morris - Evelyn Ida Morris
"An unadulterated glimpse into a single soul."
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Album Review: Jaala - Joonya Spirit
"A compelling kind of propulsion, jagged and smoothly erratic."
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Album Review: Donny Benet - The Don
"Benet has polished his shtick so much that it's almost impossible to hold on to."
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Album Review: Flowertruck - Mostly Sunny
"Clear, confident and considerately paced, 'Mostly Sunny' is the start of a bright future."