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

Christopher H James, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Herbie Hancock
"Hancock was compelled to sit back and marvel with wide eyes, later admitting to the audience that he had no idea how it was done."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - And Now For The Whatchamacallit
"'And Now For The Whatchamacallit' feels like an adventure."
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Album Review: Flying Lotus - Flamagra
"[H]appy to pen music here that slips into the background, allowing guest vocalists to take centre stage."
Reviews / Arts
Paul Foot – Image Conscious
"Foot proved to be in another league to his imitators."
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Album Review: Clinic - Wheeltappers & Shunters
"They haven’t sounded this devious or unsettling – the exact qualities that drew us to them in the first place – since their classic run of early '00s singles."
Reviews / Arts
David O'Doherty - Ultrasound
"Even by O’Doherty’s very high standards, this performance was a special one."
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Album Review: Kelsey Lu - Blood
"Something rather special is happening here."
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Album Review: Fat White Family - Serfs Up!
"'Serfs Up!' is a record that only occasionally plays to Fat White Family’s strengths."
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Album Review: Totally Unicorn - Sorry
"[Totally Unicorn are] intent on finding new ways to explore 21st century anguish and hopelessness."
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Album Review: Bibio - Ribbons
"'Ribbons' is occasionally a bit too smooth for its own good."
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Album Review: Lambchop - This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)
"Lambchop’s capacity for reinvention seems to have few, if any, creative limits."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Beasts, The Painkillers
"The band warmly embraced each other, wrapping up a feelgood affair for everyone on and off stage."