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

Christopher H James, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Converge, War On Women, Worlds Apart
"Few bands are able to hit innocent fans with a wall of sound in quite the same way Converge can."
Reviews / Live
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Live Review: Deafheaven, Zeal & Ardor
"Wielding beautiful flowing melodies, the kind purists baulk at, Deafheaven played new cuts that were heartbreakingly pretty at times."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cat Power, Carla Geneve
"Cat Power does things her way."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Panda Bear - Buoys
"In real life, buoys serve to steer ship captains away from making catastrophic errors. You can’t help but wish someone had done similar for Lennox here."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
"A cohesive work of impressionistic music that instantly sets a mood."
Reviews / Arts
Review: Fuego Carnal
"Seriously, do not play darts with these guys."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Julia Holter, Felicity Groom, Jacob Diamond
"It had a rhapsodic effect on the crowd, who fell into a hushed reverence."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Twilight Sad - It Won/t Be Like This All The Time
"A ruggedly beautiful sound."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Calexico, Fall Electric, Lucy Peach
"There’s literally no one else who can replicate what you do."
Features / Music
The Music 2018 Writers' Poll: Christopher H James
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Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dead Can Dance - Dionysus
"'Dionysus' is garlanded with all the Dead Can Dance trademark components - chanting, antique stringed instruments, sidewinding strings and a palpable sense of mystery."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Tenacious D - Post-Apocalypto
"Just another stage on which Tenacious D can pursue their sexual misadventures."