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

Christopher H James, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, The Red Paintings, The Leap Year
"An uncharacteristically stiff ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead got off to an awkward start."
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Live Review: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Floors
"Non-stop punk'n'roll shenanigans from arguably the world's most resourceful garage band."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Destroyer - Poison Season
"Genius? Goat? Our money's on a bit of both."
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Album Review: AFX - Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008
"They still sound fresh and bursting with vitamins."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Brow, Coin Banks, Rokwell & Groom
"There was barely enough room to accommodate their wild energy."
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Album Review: KUCKA - Unconditional
"KUCKA's inventive production and finely tuned pop sensibilities come together better than ever before."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Blur, Jamie T
Damon Albarn's effervescent energy was very much the visual focal point
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Live Review: Cathrine Summers
"Her common-as-muck London accent cut through any pretentious hoity toity-ness."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Vattnet Viskar - Settler
"One of the most radical and exciting phenomena to slap extreme metal around the chops in quite some time."
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Album Review: Buoy - Immersion
"Rippling keys, soft pads and vast sub-bass that explores inky black depths of sound like an intrepid submersible."
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Album Review: French Rockets - Arc
"A culmination of years spent fine tuning their art."
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Album Review: KEN Mode - Success
"Increasingly resourceful lyrical missives against a lurching Jesus Lizard-esque clatter produced by anti-rock Svengali Steve Albini."