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

Christopher H James, Journalist

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Album Review: Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front
This resurrected version of extreme metal’s former flagbearers sound like death not quite warmed up.
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Album Review: Amen Dunes - Love
"Songs ramble along loosely in a way that’s likely to appeal more to space cadets than casual folkies."
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Album Review: Usurper Of Modern Medicine - Omnlibertation
Panacea in particular is a real high with wayward arpeggios casting spells like iridescent swirls of strawberry noise. Book a mountaineering expedition with them today.
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Album Review: Various/Deetron - Fabric 76
Swiss maestro Deetron slips nimbly between Detroit techno, warehouse grooves and neo-soul.
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Album Review: Nightmares On Wax - N.O.W. Is The Time
This double disc best of (although without Finer this reviewer would say it’s an ‘almost’ best of) is rich with smoky gems.
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Album Review: Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Once More ‘Round The Sun is another epic journey.
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Album Review: Trap Them - Blissfucker
Blissfucker is a good album to cull and auto-repeat your favourites from ad infinitum.
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Album Review: Morrissey - Vauxhall And I (20th Anniversary Definitive Master)
Vauxhall And I could almost qualify as Morrissey’s “happy” album.
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Album Review: The Flaming Lips - 7 Skies H3
A few tricky edits and a wavering focus pull the listener up from attaining cosmic nirvana.
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Album Review: Kronis Quartet - A Thousand Thoughts
"the quartet’s skill and undiminished inner fire give a vivid sense of widescreen adventure"
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Album Review: Blondie - Blondie 4(0) Ever
Borderline comatose Debbie Harry autotunes her way over ill-judged, teeny rave-pop.
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Album Review: Plaid - Reachy Prints
"Plaid are techno’s Rolling Stones."