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

James d'Apice, Journalist

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Album Review: Clipping - Splendour & Misery
"It's not often that a music review needs a spoiler warning."
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Album Review: Frank Ocean - Blond
"'Blond' feels like a full realisation, a flower in bloom."
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Album Review: Drapht - Seven Mirrors
"This is the most adult we've seen Reid on record."
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Album Review: Ta-ku & Wafia - (m)edian
"Well worth your time."
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Album Review: Gucci Mane - Everybody Looking
"Ecstasy and excrement."
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Album Review: The Meeting Tree - I Was Born A Baby And I'll Die A Baby
"What a legacy."
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Album Review: Overmono - Arla
"It conveys the optimism its title suggests balanced with the hint of melancholy the wingless among us feel everyday".
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Album Review: ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face
"On this record he has found a way to contrast his ferocity with grimmer, more calculating moments."
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Album Review: Sample Answer - Good Boy
"Sample Answer's great failure is the choice to play it safe."
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Album Review: Plutonic Lab - Deep Above The Noise
"We came to know Plutonic Lab as a maker of beats for rappers; his works being defined by the voices put on top of them."
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Album Review: Drake - Views
"It's a little like watching a man catch bullets in his teeth when he should be dismissing them with a wave of his hand."
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Album Review: A$AP Ferg - Always Strive And Prosper
"Tonal missteps aside, 'Strive' is defined by restraint, subtlety, nuance."
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