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

Christopher H James, Journalist

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Album Review: Belle Haven - Everything Ablaze
"Belle Haven sound like they have 1,000 volts flowing through them; they just need to switch on a few more light bulbs."
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Album Review: Luca Brasi - Loose Threads
"Loose Threads proves maturity and punk aren’t always enemies."
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Album Review: Various -- Omelette Presents Swarm Theory
"Melburnian label Omelette celebrates its tenth anniversary with 16 new tracks of glitch hop instrumentals and downbeat carpet huggers."
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Album Review: Songhoy Blues -- Music In Exile
"This is one African group you don’t need a goatee to appreciate."
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Album Review: Soil & "Pimp" Sessions -- "X" Chronicle of SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS
"Latin jazz via Tokyo?"
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Album Review: Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin
"Ghostpoet version 2.0 is a revolution, but the beta release might be the keeper."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mogwai, J Mascis
Mogwai celebrated their 20th anniversary with "new-material-heavy setlist".
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Album Review: The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie
"Not as dangerously bleeding-edge as once they were."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Antlers, Hayden Calnin
"Slow-burning music to sway to, with or without your better half."
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Live Review: Belle & Sebastian, Twerps
Belle & Sebastian turned the night into a seriously steamy affair
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Album Review: Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt2
"It’s entirely unlike anything he, or anyone else, has done before."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Omar Souleyman, Usurper Of Modern Medicine, DJ Wrighteous
There was some disappointment at the lack of an encore from Omar Souleyman, but the crowd couldn't complain too much given what they witnessed in Perth.