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

Pete Laurie, Journalist

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Album Review: Skipping Girl Vinegar - The Great Wave
"Skipping Girl Vinegar and The Great Wave take the self-importance out of indie rock and just have a great time."
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Album Review: The Mountain Goats -- Beat The Champ
"A wide-ranging collection of sweeping epics, introverted and intimate reflections, and everything between."
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Album Review: The Seven Ups -- The Seven Ups
"The Seven Ups have delivered the kind of infectious instrumental sound where vocals would only get in the way."
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Album Review: The Bitter Sweethearts -- Everybody Wants To Be Free
"This album wears its American country influence proudly on its sleeve, yet adds a distinctly Aussie twang."
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Album Review: Benny Walker - Through The Forest
"These songs will seep deep inside without you even noticing, only to unexpectedly hit you, and hit hard."
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Album Review: Darren Hanlon - Where Did You Come From?
"Darren Hanlon builds and populates entire worlds in three-minute bursts of pop, country, folk perfection."
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Album Review: Steve Earle & The Dukes - Terraplane
"Steve Earle & The Dukes have the confidence to deliver zero frills."
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Album Review: Peace - Happy People
"They do a solid enough job that all of this influence aping is totally fine"
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Album Review: Fat Mike & Friends - Home Street Home: Original Songs From The Shit Musical
"Fat Mike & Friends will offend and bore fans of punk and musical theatre alike."
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Album Review: The Gin Club - Southern Lights
"The Gin Club prove that a lush and full sound can still rock."
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Album Review: Ryan Bingham - Fear And Saturday Night
"A storytelling style to rival Springsteen."
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Album Review: The Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
"'What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World' is more than worth it."
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