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

Brendan Telford, Journalist

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Album Review: Fabulous Diamonds - Commercial Music
What it proves is that Fabulous Diamonds are more adept at straddling the fine line between dreamscapes and nightmares.
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Album Review: Grand Salvo - Slay Me In My Sleep
The fact that Mann has the audacity to make such an album is one thing; the fact that he has made a grandiose, majestic folk epic with all the emotional toil of a classic novel, is nigh on revelatory.
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Album Review: Opossom - Electric Hawaii
The most evident thing about Electric Hawaii is that despite a proclivity to experiment and push boundaries, it never loses sight of the inherent importance of the hook and melody.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Splendour In The Grass 2012
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Album Review: Tiny Spiders - Tiny Spiders
Tiny Spiders is a deceptive album in that it succeeds through its simplistic mission statement
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Album Review: Ben Salter - Live At Nancy Bar
It’s also proof of how strong Salter has become without an engine room behind him to provide the requisite heft and bluster
Features / Music
Swinging The Pendulum
"People always tell me that we sound like Pavement, and I suppose there is some quirkiness in there that lends itself to that, but I’ve never been aiming for that comparison."
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WIXIW Were Here
"We felt that we had to be adamant about how we felt the word should be interpreted because we hadn’t created it to be obtuse. A lot of time could be wasted through misinterpretation, which isn’t the point here."
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Bridging The Gap
“We have changed so dramatically that In Hindsight is a new start for us. Even though the last three years have happened and informed everything, Hunting Grounds feels like a new band starting out all over again.”
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Clag, Blood Relative, Kitchen's Floor, Scraps
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Album Review: DIIV - Oshin
Oshin is an atmospheric ride that’s neither light nor dark – a bit like seeing the sun pierce tree canopies through your eyelids.
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Album Review: Death Grips - The Money Store
These tracks are linked by songs without as clear a focus; or even worse, are abrasive without a clear purpose at all.