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

Matt MacMaster, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Morricone Youth: Night Of The Living Dead Live Score
"As the shambling flesh-eaters besieged the rapidly disintegrating farmhouse, the band crashed and thumped through their set, chugging guitars jostling next to screaming synth barrages."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Nils Frahm - All Melody
"Even by playing with woodwind and brass and wordless vocals he has simply discovered another side of the same coin."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mount Eerie, Julie Byrne
"It was devastating."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Emel Mathlouthi, Rahim Alhaj, Karim Wasfi
"Mathlouthi finished up with 'War Child', a poignant The Cranberries cover as a moving tribute to the late Dolores O'Riordan."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mette Rasmussen
"Climaxes were softer, or perhaps more palatable, but the sound was still thunderous and murky."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Aquasonic (Between Music)
"Water does strange things to sound. It bends it, stretches it, fractures it, dulls it, swallows it and to us it becomes an alien simulacrum of the thing we land-dwellers experience."
Features / Music
The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Matt MacMaster
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Chk Chk Chk, World Champion, Gauci
"These guys are pros."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Fairgrounds Festival
"You Am I were You Am I ('Get a haircut? What, and look like you? I'm Tim Rogers, mate, I wouldn't be you for quids'): loud, proud, and always a winner."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Methyl Ethel, Kuzich, Childsaint
"Seeing them live is a great reminder of how technically talented the group truly is."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mono, Dumbsaint, Grun
"A Mono show is an exercise in relinquishing control of higher functions such as critical evaluation and plugging your lizard brain directly into the amplifiers."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: At The Drive In, Le Butcherettes
"... Like most abrasive acts heavy with legacy, the blistering heat that radiated off them 20 years ago has been tempered somewhat."
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