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

James d'Apice, Journalist

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Album Review: Tuka - Life Death Time Eternal
"This is the album of an artist approaching his peak, one who knows his past and knows how he wants to shape his future."
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Album Review: DIZZ1 - In Sickness & In Health
"This record is more nostalgia piece than game-changer ... Dizz1 is clearly wedded to the sounds of his youth."
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Album Review: Seth Sentry - Strange New Past
"His triumph is his commitment to making that progress while others around him stagnate. That’s artistry. That’s humility."
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Album Review: Jones Jnr - Step On Sleep
"Hear that choir? Surrender to them"
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Album Review: Yelawolf - Love Story
"Alternating between rap and white-bread pop-country might pay the bills, but it must make it pretty tough to look yourself in the mirror"
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Album Review: The Meeting Tree - R U A Cop
"It’s only when they fail to take themselves as seriously as their talent demands that we see a stutter"
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Album Review: Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light
"Their fifth full-length is a complete work, no obvious flaws and a few moments of genuine magic"
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Album Review: Snoop Dogg - BUSH
"He’s wandered into new scenes before and found success. Here, he’s exposed as a charlatan"
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Album Review: Nantes -- Limbo
"Nantes take us on an incessant, gently melancholic journey."
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Album Review: The Go! Team -- The Scene Between
"This is another step on The Go! Team’s engaging, endearing, occasionally baffling journey."
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Album Review: Skrillex & Diplo - Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack Ü
"Is this hook a Caribbean-spiced Diplo trademark or a piece of wobbly Skrillex melodrama?"
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Album Review: Mahalia Barnes & The Soulmates - Ooh Yea! – The Betty Davis Songbook
"This is what loud pop music is supposed to sound like."