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

Amorina Fitzgerald Hood, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Lior, Gerard Masters
He finishes the set receiving a lot of love from the crowd, which is to be expected.
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Live Review: Josh Pyke, Jackson McLaren
The gratitude towards his fans is evident, and his banter is tangential and hilarious.
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Live Review: Little Odessa
It’s an evening of fun and dancing, though the band is most exciting when they bring more to the table than well-worn conventions of rock’n’roll.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sarah Blasko, Appleonia
As expected, the crowd is left wanting more and the encore of the mandolin-led Here helps weave the final spell of the Sarah Blasko experience.
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Live Review: Foxsmith, The Gonzo Show, The Stress of Leisure
Having just released the video for it, the jaunty pop gem, Wake Up, closes the night.
Features / Music
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Reviews / Live
Live Review: Patrick James, The Starry Field, The Phoncurves
The song disappointingly ends just as we glimpse a new, grittier colour creeping into the set, but the crowd don’t mind and we are treated to an encore from one the country’s finest new songwriters.
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Live Review: Jill Scott, Noah Slee
The expected encore is a treat, and ends with the crowd singing together, “do you understand what you feel inside?” What a fitting sentiment on which to end the night.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Skinny Jean - The Diving Saucer Returns From A World Where The Sun Never Shines
From the bizarrely danceable (Philistine) to the delicately beautiful (Helix Life, Scales) and surreal (Atlas), there‘s much to discover. Ambitious, pretentious, beautiful and strange.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dubmarine - Laser Sound Beam
There is joy present (Singie) and conscious lyrics dissecting the world (Cabinet Fever, Bullyman) and Dubmarine sit comfortably in both spaces, creating a uniquely Australian sound that makes you think as much as it makes you dance.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Clare Bowditch, Spender
Evoking karaoke at a boozy girls’ night out, the stunning performance ends on a mash-up of Martika’s Love, Thy Will be Done, The Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), Survivor’s Eye Of The Tiger and even a terrible attempt at Eminem’s Lose Yourself.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jessie Baylin Little Spark
It feels like a genuine album, and the stories are well-written and performed, but if there’s one weakness, it’s that they’re not very personal