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

Brynn Davies, Journalist

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Album Review: Lewis Watson - midnight
"If you haven't dug back into your pubescent YouTube history, do so now."
Features / Music
On Being Guilted Into Having Sex & How Men Can Identify With 'Girlie Bits'
"He said, 'You just don't understand what it's like, babe. I'm a man and I have these urges and I need to have sex'."
Features / Music
Shiver Canyon's New EP Is About 'Desire And Longing'
"I decided to record music I had written that sat outside heavy rock."
Features / Music
How The Crookeds Recorded A Single After Passing Out Under The Mixing Desk
"Our drummer miraculously nailed his parts running on a bottle of Southern Comfort and 46 minutes sleep."
Features / Music
Why John Mayer Inspires Josh Needs Endlessly
"I'd never recorded anything like this before. So I went home and practiced the shit out of it until it was right!"
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Why Christo Jones Loves His Sunroom Studio
"Burying myself in my sunroom studio and making a concept EP was about creating a vibe over technical perfection."
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Thank The Trombone, Two Buskers & Blink-182's Albums For Bec Sandridge's Music
"If people don't like it then that's awesome because that's what art is meant to do - it's mean to polarise people."
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How The Programmed World And Natural World Collide
"When a song achieves that fluidity live, it's done."
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Shag Rock Ask The Tough Questions: 'Can You Be A Very, Very Part-Time Belieber?'
"Justin Bieber melts my heart. Just that one song that he did with DJ Snake, I just can't get enough of it."
Features / Music
Dada Ono On Cheap Violins, 'Family Guy' & A Blood Test Gone Bad
"I went from practicing four to seven hours a day to like, nothing, for a year."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Methyl Ethel - Everything Is Forgotten
"Surrealism and absurdist concepts co-exist with '80s synths, polyrhythmic flourishes and Webb's slippery falsetto..."
Features / Music
Why Alison Avron Made A Record Her Mum Would Be Proud Of
"The whole reason for recording the album was to reflect my personal journey with grief..."
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