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

Brynn Davies, Journalist

Features / Music
alt-J. Photo by Josh Groom
Alt-J Open Up About Sex And Serious Health Issues
"Sex... I like to talk about it."
Features / Music
How Cash Savage Wrote An Album To Her Grief & A Letter To Her Marriage
"I'm so fucking bored of how politicised my own marriage is, so it feels like a funny thing to talk about."
Features / Music
Julia Jacklin
For Julia Jacklin, 'Coming Of Age' Means Learning To Ask For What You Want
"I feel a coming of age moment is happening right this minute for Julia the performer."
Features / Music
Why Slumberjack Will Never Have Onstage Equipment Failures Again
"The whole thing has cost us a lot; a lot of money, a lot of frustration - but no frustration anymore because now when you're on stage, nothing fails!"
Features / Music
Dappled Cities
Dappled Cities Are Optimistic About Sydney Being A 'Capitalist Wasteland'
"I'm not upset if Surry Hills becomes gentrified and Marrickville becomes cool ... people are still making music and finding places to play."
Features / Music
Frank Sultana Recorded His Latest Single In A Pretty Unconventional Way
"I started with the piano, then bass and drums, guitars and vocals last of all."
Features / Music
Raise Your Voice & End Domestic Violence At Queensland Music Festival
"I believe that art has a responsibility to comment on the orders of the day and to promote discourse and intelligent discussion about issues that are important to us as a people and as a society."
Features / Music
Busby Marou Want To Send A Message Of Reconciliation Without Getting Too Political
"We're Rocky boys, and people think Rocky can be redneck at times, but in [my] relationships I've never had that. I've had black and white friends my whole life and I think, 'What's the big issue?'"
Features / Music
Bliss N Eso
Bliss N Eso's Music Spookily Becomes More Relevant With Each New Challenge
"You listen to [Friend Like You] now, it’s like those lyrics can help you deal with that situation. It’s really uncanny."
Features / Music
How Joshua Batten Continues Striving For Perfection
"I am a perfectionist by nature."
Features / Music
How Tony Abbott Inspired The Anecdote's Debut Album
"Songwriting becomes a beautiful way of keeping your history alive."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Rory J Dawson - While Away
"Not quite happy, definitely not depressing; just a little lonely."