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

Matt MacMaster, Journalist

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Live Review: Goblin, Miles Brown
Even though they failed to deliver the trippy visual spectacle folks expected, they brought all the panache and the ornate, gothic and weird rock sophistication that has made them so famous and so important.
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Live Review: Mammals, Rat & Co., Kite String Tangles
They know how to arrange a song, they write fairly well, but it was weaksauce in execution, sliding through each glistening, bleeding-heart chord pattern lazily. Disappointing.
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Live Review: Bliss N Eso, Yelawolf, Pez
Lots of energy, lots of happy fans and a fight. Pretty Standard B&E show, really.
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Live Review: Thelma Plum, The Starry Field
Her high points are what artists strive to achieve throughout entire careers. Watching her fill her songs with her life as she grows will be worth the wait.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Neon Neon - Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect is a perfectly acceptable addition to a promising catalogue, and new material should be highly anticipated.
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Live Review: Kora, Cheap Fakes
By the end of the show the strong crowd were favourable, but there was nothing groundbreaking going on that deserved anything more.
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Album Review: Seja - All Our Wires
It’s a solid local release, holding a sunny disposition that’s perfect for a mid-June pick-me-up, and serves as a very promising indication of things to come.
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Live Review: Bitzer
Everyone knew the songs, everyone loved the songs, and judging from the (very) young ones in attendance, this won’t change for a long time.
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Live Review: Gurrumul
Whether he was chanting a traditional song or one of his own arrangements, his songs were moving and elegant and radiated a warm and rare humanity.
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Live Review: The Heritage Orchestra Presents: Blade Runner
The first thing that struck us was the huge difference in texture. The original opening piece that accompanies a wide shot of a vast glittering world of industry and fire is majestic, but clearly artificial.
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Live Review: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
By the end they were tearing the place to pieces with incredible versions of A Perfect Teenhood, Caterwaul and Totally Natural. Extra points to Jason Reece for Aged Dolls.
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Live Review: Kaki King, Salta
Kaki King is one of contemporary music’s great talents.