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

Pete Laurie, Journalist

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Album Review: The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader
Are they serious, or seriously taking the piss?
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Album Review: The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Carl Newman, Neko Case and Dan Bejar et al are the veritable Voltron of indie rock.
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Album Review: Twin Atlantic - Great Divide
Great Divide proves that’s sometimes, more is more.
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Album Review: Weird Al Yankovic - Mandatory Fun
Yankovic’s world is as twisted and surprising as ever.
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Album Review: Sticky Fingers - Land Of Pleasure
Sticky Fingers have given you a soundtrack for your summer
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Album Review: Radio Moscow - Magical Dirt
"Radio Moscow know they’re a throwback to an older sound; they also know how to do it right"
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Album Review: Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
"Manic Street Preachers are a band that have never settled for anything less than piling on every single conceivable layer of bombast and excess"
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Album Review: Judas Priest - Redeemer Of Souls
Devilish sounds, just as the dark lord intended.
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Album Review: David Gray - Mutineers
Mutineers is somehow simple and elegant, while also extravagant and grand.
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Album Review: Powerman 5000 - Builders Of The Future
It sounds like each one will inevitably burst out of your speakers whether you press play or not.
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Album Review: This Wild Life - Clouded
The songs are tight and they know how to evoke beauty.
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Album Review: Roll The Tanks - Broke Till Midnight
When punk rock is polished, picked over and pristinely perfected to within an inch of its life, is it still punk rock?