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

Brendan Telford, Journalist

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Album Review: Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
"Windhand prove that metal can soothe as much as scorch."
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Album Review: Crayon Fields - No One Deserves You
"Less naive and more esoterically filled with chagrin."
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Album Review: Wavves - V
"It's a tough nut to crack, with a penchant for flippantly changing tempos and moods within the song."
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Album Review: US Girls - Half Free
"Each song is fiercely iconoclastic, the lyrics both dark and proudly evocative."
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Album Review: Making - Highlife
"A powerful forging of Making's own scabrous, seething path."
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Album Review: Max Richter - Sleep/From Sleep
"An awesome feat of aural auteurship that breaks the fourth wall in a unique way."
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Album Review: Greys - Lyre
"An emotive guitar rock record rife with epic swells and euphoric catharsis."
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Album Review: Angie - Free Agent
"It doesn't take long before she takes us around the various backwaters of distorted lo-fi rock."
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Album Review: Best Friends - Hot. Reckless. Totally Insane.
"A scuzzed-out record that straddles the lo-fi punk stylings that came out of London a few years ago."
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Album Review: Various - When Sharpies Ruled: A Vicious Selection
"When Sharpies Ruled is perfect as both an aural and tactile testament to this overlooked scene."
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Album Review: Kadavar - Berlin
"There is very little to differentiate one track from the next."
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Album Review: Deaf Wish - Pain
"[Deaf Wish] waste no time in throwing their discordant weight into familiar and unexplored territories."