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

Brendan Telford, Journalist

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Album Review: Peter Bibby - Butcher/Hairstylist/Beautician
"Bibby paints a deliciously perturbing picture of Australian shambolic chic."
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Album Review: Sincerely Grizzly - Halves
Their innate sense of melody is never lost on this assured album.
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Album Review: Brant Bjork & The Low Desert Punk Band - Black Power Flower
Bjork ain’t about to leave the Kyuss/Fu Manchu gravy train just yet.
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Album Review: Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx III
"Valya explodes in spiralling light, an excellently euphoric endnote."
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Album Review: Xylouris White - Goats
"There’s something primordial about the poetic rhythms the duo slips into, the music’s roots both ancient and alien."
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Album Review: Exhaustion - Biker
"When the “light” comes in the form of the relentless Haus Flipper, you know you are in good hands."
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Album Review: Bass Drum of Death - Rip This
"There’s nothing new here."
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Album Review: Ausmuteants - Order Of Operations
"Something so wrong ends up being so, so right."
Features / Music
The Solo Bag
“There is never that internal wince when travelling to Australia; it’s been one of the audiences that have always enjoyed being part of the show”
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Album Review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz
"I’m In Your Mind Fuzz is a behemoth of warp and fizz that blows the speakers and the mind. More of this please."
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Album Review: Stars - No One Is Lost
"The title is a misnomer – deep down they’re dour, despondent and irretrievably lost."
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Album Review: Pulled Apart By Horses - Blood
"Blood flows at the cost of what made the band memorable in the first place."