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

Brendan Telford, Journalist

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Album Review: The Murlochs - Loopholes
Another psyched-out, harmonica-drenched jam from Flightless Records, this time from The Murlocs in the form of Loopholes.
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Album Review: Liars - Mess
"Liars have continually subverted genre, expectation and taste to carve out a truly unique niche within the music landscape."
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Album Review: Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love
"A pleasant surprise."
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Album Review: Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
"There’s a familiarity in the wavelength-like undulations of Guilty Of Everything, but that makes it even more alluring."
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Album Review: Ratking - So It Goes
"Ratking is another breath of fresh air in a continually revitalised genre."
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Album Review: Emma Russack - You Changed Me
Russack’s husky vocals scratch that interminable itch of real life, able to encapsulate widely accessible personal dilemmas in the realm of acutely specific narratives, all murmured with an inquisitive, attractively laconic air.
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Album Review: EMA - The Future's Void
The Future’s Void is a stark, evocative journey.
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Album Review: The Night Terrors - Spiral Vortex
"Melbourne’s horror dwellers The Night Terrors continue delving into the darkest recesses of the cinematic nightmare on second LP Spiral Vortex."
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Album Review: Ruined Fortune - Ruined Fortune
"They manage to forge an album of maniacal beauty that is wondrously nihilistic and catastrophically hypnotic."
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Touching The Void
"I think we like the punishment."
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Monster Mission
"It felt like I was making Spine Of God last week."
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Album Review: Band Of Skulls - Himalayan
Himalayan doesn’t break the mould more than resets it in cast iron – Band Of Skulls writ large.