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

Pete Laurie, Journalist

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Album Review: J Roddy Walston & The Business - Essential Tremors
Most of all, Essential Tremors is undeniably real.
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Album Review: Carthasy - The Gyre
If you like the opener, Ascent, you’ll hear it ten more times before the album is done.
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Album Review: Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes
If you like the same bands they obviously do, you’ve heard it all before.
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Album Review: All The Colours - All The Colours
It’s missing just a little bit of authenticity that might come by loosening those bowties and getting some dirt under their fingernails.
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Album Review: Mount Salem - Endless
Vintage rock, paying homage to what came before, blatant rip-offs of bands from decades past…
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Album Review: Solids - Blame Confusion
A Canadian guitar and drums duo who crank out simple, arse-kicking rock that’s as much about attitude as it is about music.
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Album Review: Destrage - Are You Kidding Me? No.
Let’s hope there’s plenty more where Destrage came from.
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Album Review: Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Transgender Dysphoria Blues rides the thin line between deep emotion and infectious punk-rock hooks. And it’s this precarious balance that makes it legitimately exciting in a way that studio gloss too often polishes away.
Features / Music
The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Peter Laurie
Peter Laurie predicts the reunion of more '90s bands in 2014.
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Album Review: State Faults - Resonate/Desperate
Sometimes repetitive, but always relentless, aggressive and unflinching, Resonate / Desperate makes sure you'll be feeling the effects for a while after listening.
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Album Review: Anthony Callea - This Is Christmas
If you forget to get your mum a present this year and see this for sale at a service station on the way to Christmas lunch, it’ll do the job.
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Album Review: Kill Devil Hill - Revolution Rise
There’s nothing to dislike about Kill Devil Hill; it just sounded better 20 years ago, when it was released as Dirt by Alice In Chains.
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