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

Christopher H James, Journalist

Reviews / Arts
David O'Doherty: Big Time (PCF)
"The material came rapidly in overwhelming torrents, such that laughter induced exhaustion became a genuine possibility."
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Album Review: Slowdive - Slowdive
"Slowdive's return provides a masterful lesson to their legions of bastard offspring."
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Album Review: Pond - The Weather
"It's a fine example of a new twinkling, retro-futuristic vision."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 1984 - 2014
"The resourcefulness of the Bad Seeds conjures whatever vivid backdrop Cave requires, from frontier taverns to candlelit bedsides."
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Album Review: Jade Imagine - What The Fuck Was I Thinking
"A tight six-tracker that grows on you very quickly."
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Album Review: Feist - Pleasure
"...will make connections and pull at the heart strings in curious and unusual ways."
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Album Review: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - High Visceral (Part 2)
"The band's overpowering energy fractures the boundaries of logic and sound."
News / Music
Kendrick Lamar's 'DAMN.' Is So Bulletproof It Even Survives The Inclusion Of U2
"If To Pimp A Butterfly was a Hollywood epic, DAMN. is an intimate Weinstein Company production."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Booka Shade - Galvany Street
"No amount of production nous can disguise the pedestrian songwriting and lack of character in Walker's performance."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Mountain Goats, Oh Pep!
"I just feel my way into it. I'm an American, so I like to go into things with tape over my eyes."
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Album Review: Actress - AZD
"Yet another 100% future-proof record."
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Album Review: Clark - Death Peak
"After 16 years in the game there's no sign of Clark's creativity waning."
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