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

Christopher H James, Journalist

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Album Review: Toro Y Moi - Boo Boo
"...There are many moments of genuine beauty amid the sadness."
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Album Review: Washed Out - Mister Mellow
"If any particular qualm lingers, it's that some of the best visual moments come and go in a flash, somewhat like life."
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Album Review: Usurper Of Modern Medicine - Everything Is Nothing
"The peak intensity comes early on in a flighty first half."
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Album Review: Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
"'Every Valley' fails to capture the widescreen grandeur of their last album 'The Race For Space.'"
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Album Review: Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder
"'Hug Of Thunder' remains optimistic and in the spirit of the band we know."
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Album Review: Radiohead - OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017
"This 20th anniversary edition will give completists' saliva glands a good workout."
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Album Review: The Love Junkies - Cough And Splutter
"One of their most brilliantly unhinged and unchained works to date."
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Album Review: Algiers - The Underside Of Power
"...featuring a classic Motown backbeat, it sounds something like The Four Tops if they had severe anger issues."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Necks
"The music that The Necks make defies genre pigeonholing."
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Live Review: Beth Orton, Vorhees
"Orton's voice rendered a magnetic effect across the entire room."
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Album Review: Songhoy Blues - Resistance
"The grooves are infectious, venomous even."
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Album Review: Ride - Weather Diaries
"Not likely to considered alongside their finest, but a welcome return nonetheless."