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

Brendan Telford, Journalist

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Album Review: Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling
"'Silent Earthling' is a luscious monstrosity not of this, or any, world."
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Album Review: Kiran Leonard - Grapefruit
"Leonard is comfortable enough for his music to be rough and at times awkward, and he is talented enough to pull it off."
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Album Review: The Murlocs - Young Blindness
"Flowing '60s free-love pastoral psych pop, with burnt edges — they could be dug out of a time capsule."
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Album Review: Boris With Merzbow - Gensho
"The kicker — the albums are to be played simultaneously, at different volumes, for maximum effect."
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Album Review: Totally Mild - Alive In Denmark
"...segues effortlessly from maudlin lounge to sonorous soiree to spiralling guitar squall."
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Album Review: Useless Eaters - Temporary Mutilation
"Everything is not as it seems with the newest release from Useless Eaters."
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Album Review: Scraper - Misery
"Gleefully nasty stuff."
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Album Review: So Pitted - neo
"A delightfully brutal and weird debut."
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Album Review: Naked - Pink Quartz
"Pink Quartz swings, ambles and twitches between each serrated touchstone, keeping the mood belligerent and aggressive and liberally twisted with laconic humour."
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Album Review: Choke Chains - Choke Chains
"Choke Chains have delivered an album that is unrelenting and rough as hell."
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Album Review: Wet Ones - Wet Ones
"The fidelity is pushed into the red, causing the speakers to crackle and buzz under the stress."
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Album Review: Hinds - Leave Me Alone
"Garden and San Diego benefit from the rickety instrumentation and frayed harmonies, but for the most part it gets tired."