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

Matt MacMaster, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Shining Bird, Solid Effort, SM Jenkins
"They tapped into Australia's haunting vastness, creating what seemed like a cavernous space inside a tiny band room."
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Live Review: Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen
"Owen and Kelly played underneath the pulpit, throwing tall shadows against the organ pipes."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Slotface - Empire Records
"Channelling youthful dreams (memories?) of reckless, mind-altering (inclusive) fun."
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Album Review: The Griswolds - High Times For Low Lives
"At least they're trying to engage with an impressively broad palette."
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Album Review: Zeahorse - Torana Dreamin'
"A group of guys pretty stoked at life, but who have decided to communicate that as gruffly as possible."
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Album Review: Client Liaison - Diplomatic Immunity
"Have they drunk their own Kool-Aid?"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: NO ZU
"It was primal and stanky, and it was fantastic."
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Album Review: The Lemon Twigs - Do Hollywood
"Here's to hoping they maintain their delightful weirdness just a little longer."
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Album Review: The Laurels - Sonicology
"Down a rabbit hole of psychedelic Amen drum breaks and woozy riffing."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Black Mountain, The Laurels
"Mammoth riffs were reduced to ashen imitation."
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Live Review: Into It. Over It., Zzzounds, Jack R Reilly
"Evan Thomas Weiss was charming, warm and open, in stark contrast to emo's melodramatic MO."
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Album Review: Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
"Sharp, angular and overwhelming."
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