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

Brendan Telford, Journalist

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Album Review: Seabellies - Fever Belle
The band’s instrumentation is precise and energising, but Fever Belle remains an ambitious, if somewhat over-familiar attempt at expanding horizons.
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Breaking Barriers
"I like to think that going through the process of being creative means you’re touching on things that you’ve never encountered or attempted before."
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Album Review: Cannon - It's Cool, No Worries
Here comes Cannon with another release, and it’s as inherently fun and unhinged as ever
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Changing Rooms
"For a long time I didn’t bother writing lyrics, I would just make up words onstage."
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Steven Wilson
Death Is Not The End
“That idea of there being something after death is something I find interesting, but at the same time intellectually I find it difficult accepting that."
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Pop Purge
“Not giving a fuck. It does feel like that, that a song is like a view into another dimension."
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Album Review: The Crooked Fiddle Band - Moving Pieces Of The Sea
Moving Pieces Of The Sea encapsulates bizarre, square peg/round hole territory – yet is undeniably breathtaking.
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Album Review: Glasser - Interiors
Much of Interiors’ instrumentation wouldn’t be far removed from a ‘hip’ label such as Not Not Fun.
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Album Review: Au Revoir Simone - Move In Spectrums
Guitars shimmer and glide, knitting together a coalescing tapestry of pop mediation and manipulation.
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Album Review: Factory Floor - Factory Floor
From the seductive yet calamitous jam of Two Different Ways to the insidious march of Here Again, the white noise annihilation of old may have lamentably faded away, but what remains is a stone cold triumph of dance as industrial yet pragmatic energy.
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Album Review: Islands - Ski Mask
Nick Thorburn has always known his way around all imaginable forms of pop hook – while there is less variation here, the earworms remain in fervent force.
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Album Review: Quasi - Mole City
Mole City is playfully weird, but above all else a truly fun rocking album.