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

Matt MacMaster, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: ...And You Will Know Us by The Trail Of Dead, The Red Paintings, Solkyri, Heads Of Charm
"Their potent songwriting still has an impact but there was also a palpable vacuum in the room."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Quarter Street - Quarter Street
"A record with a hard edge to it, piston-like rhythms propelling the solemn brass section forward."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: HEALTH - Death Magic
"Death Magic is HEALTH violently interpreting pop music."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Frankie & The Heartstrings - Decency
"[The] Clash-style hooks and clean, smart songwriting."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: High Tension, Mere Women, MSV BCP, Narrow Lands
"They all pulsed and sweated and gave sterling performances."
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Live Review: Black Cobra, Jucifer, Dead, Nunchukka Superfly
"Familiar riffs angrily tumbled out onto the small crowd and it was enough to inject some life back into the gig."
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Live Review: HOWQUA, Rob Taylor, Dylan Wright
"It doesn’t feel right to comment on such naked honesty and sincerity and humanity with anything but a shy thumbs up."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Art Of Sleeping - Shake Shiver
"The production is handsome and clean, while the boys get an A for colouring between the lines (and they are bright, summery colours)."
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Album Review: Little Sea - With You Without You
"Production is bright and tangible with jangly guitars peeking out from behind a rich pop rhythm section."
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Album Review: OHHMS - Cold
"A lack of evolution, of follow-through, and of exploration disappoints."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Pallbearer, Hawkmoth, Looking Glass
"They dominated the room, stretching out time and space with their eldritch drone, and it was a heady experience."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: High On Fire - Luminiferous
"It probably won’t win new fans, but it’s another great throwback record from the guys who do it best."