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

Brendan Telford, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Die! Die! Die!, Royal Blood, The Grand Scheme
Features / Music
Aural Androids
“I don’t necessarily agree with this idea, but I feel it’s partly true, that electronic music has become attractive because it’s seen as more accessible than an artist with live instrumentation.”
Features / Music
Bursting The Bubble
Atlanta’s Cartel has had a fluctuating career yet they still hold strong. Brendan Telford talks to ringleader Will Pugh about keeping their eyes on the prize.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
The album ticks over with meticulous pace, yet is eloquent by degrees – there’s nary a note or vocal out of place. An excellent document of two incredible songwriters revelling in each other’s company.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Centipede Hz is ablaze with noise and aggression, confusion and bluster, yet it’s indelibly an Animal Collective album, infused with starry-eyed wonder.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Ghost Notes, Faspeedelay, The Scrapes, Pale Earth
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Locust - Molecular Genetics From The Gold Standard Labs
Molecular Genetics… is a biography, the growth of a band presented as a journey in which the listener is invited to partake. An incredibly bitter and twisted pill, but well worth the trip.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Fragrant World is exactly that – a new realm overcome with sounds that bombard the senses.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Laurels, Keep On Dancin's, Cobwebbs
Features / Music
Recovering The Night
Their brand of instrumental rock isn’t an easy sell, particularly when the negative connotations of “post-rock” rear their ugly heads.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Hugo Race - No But It's True
Hugo Race does what he wants
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Micachu and The Shapes - Never
Never is a cheekily rendered scrapbook of genres, all put through the prism of neon ingenuity and crackpot invention
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