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

Tyler McLoughlan, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dolly Parton - Pure & Simple
"It's Dolly - enough said."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Sugar Army - BEAST
"Their third record 'BEAST' indeed owns the meaty title."
Features / Music
Out With The Old, In With The Brutal
"It's such an intangible thing to know that you've got to write a great follow up album… But just through sheer force of will you can't achieve that, it has to be disconnected from your ambition."
Features / Music
Black Veils And Bouquets, How Bat For Lashes Brings The Bride To Life
"Coming down the aisle in my black veil and bouquet, and throwing it in the audience and stuff — I didn't realise how fun it was gonna be..."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Bat For Lashes - The Bride
"It takes guts to produce a record of such thematic ambition."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Roxette - Good Karma
"They are undeniable masters of the pop hook even on their tenth record."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cat Power
"The awkward and often unhinged performance style is a side effect of her willingness to be enormously vulnerable."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
"One could spend an age pouring through alter egos, metaphors and the often weird subject matter."
Features / Music
Underground Rave Caves, Sex Dreams And Conga Lines
"I always pictured an underground rave cave full of smoke and the heat beat goin' crazy, and just a communal collective experience."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Deftones - Gore
"Menacing, ragged, aggressive, tender, emotive and soothing."
Features / Music
Why Frank Delgado Felt All The Feelings About New Record 'Gore'
"There's a lot of laughing and yelling and fighting — that's never changed."
Features / Music
Tigertown's Motto: Always Put Your Mum On The Door
"I'm still suspicious that a lot of the triple j plays we've had have just been requests from Mum…"
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