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

Brendan Telford, Journalist

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Album Review: Wire - Change Becomes Us
Lewis takes the vocal reins for Re-Invent Your Second Wheel, a good little pop song; and while Stealth Of A Stork and Eels Sang riff off old times, Change Becomes Us remains an exciting album – recycling in creative overdrive.
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Living By Code
"Age, looks, gender – it doesn’t matter, and as long you always have something important to say and do, it never will."
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Album Review: Beaches - She Beats
She Beats remains a surging monstrosity of precision, dynamism and considerable, brutal beauty.
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Album Review: Blackchords - A Thin Line
A Thin Line marks Blackchords as dark minstrels of sinuous pop, still searching for their voice.
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Album Review: No Joy - Wait To Pleasure
There are moments that hark back to the golden age of shoegaze that clearly enamour them – Slug Night and Lunar Phobia have been ripped from MBV’s DNA.
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Take A Gamble
"Some were clearly not as polished as we’d come to expect of ourselves now, so those songs were put on the backburner for us to work on later."
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Album Review: Melvins - Everybody Loves Sausages
Everybody Loves Sausages then isn’t anything more than a band having a blast with some golden favourites, without a care if you’re on board or not.
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Album Review: Hanni El Khatib - Head In The Dirt
Imagine this album then as a primer for his concert and it’ll get you into the groove. But as a standalone record, it’s pretty hit and mess.
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Album Review: Akron/Family - Sub Verses
Sub Verses then plays like a schizophrenic idiot savant; ideas are spewed forth at rapidfire speeds, seemingly without nuance or reason at disparate ends of the spectrum.
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Album Review: Fat - Blue Meets Black
Blue Meets Black is the perfect document for a band that have slaved away, burning down stages as they go, and will hopefully get them the recognition they rightly deserve.
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Album Review: Rilo Kiley - RKIVES
Rkives finishes off with the twee The Frug and a hidden track, and it’s not hard to see why Rilo Kiley called it quits: their era has passed us by. But what an era it was.
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Album Review: The Flaming Lips - The Terror
So too should anyone seeking an album of melodic substance. The Terror is admirable, sonically spectacular, and aurally sleek – yet the appeal dies away after time.