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

Christopher H James, Journalist

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Album Review: Straight Arrows - On Top!
"It’s an album that just drips with energy."
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Album Review: Julia Holter - Aviary
"Focusing less on conventional songs, 'Aviary' is a 90-minute journey through ornate aural labyrinths, majestically constructed with harps, pipes and Holter's cool, crystalline piano."
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Album Review: Parcels - Parcels
"Their understated yacht-rock softly harks back to a genre that ended before they were even born."
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Album Review: Marissa Nadler - For My Crimes
"The final selections here represent some of Nadler’s strongest songwriting to date."
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Album Review: Amber Arcades - European Heartbreak
"The cosiest sounding protest album ever."
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Album Review: Anaal Nathrakh - A New Kind Of Horror
"If subtlety or understatement is what you came for, Anaal Nathrakh will leave you empty-handed every time."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Power Trip, Unravel, Self-Harm
"As bodies collided, limbs took on lives of their own and objects flew across the room."
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Album Review: Metric - Art Of Doubt
"Metric have finally nailed their most urgent, energising work."
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Album Review: Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
"The results are so immaculately detailed; It's hard to believe the orchestral swells of 'Damaged' are the work of one man."
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Album Review: Mogwai - KIN: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Band leader Stuart Braithwaite has said that KIN features some of his favourite ever music by Mogwai"
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Album Review: Rabbit Island - Deep In The Big
"Fresh has a pure approach to writing music, shunning verse-chorus, verse-chorus conventions and instead embracing free flowing forms that capture fleeting moods."
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Album Review: Mitski - Be The Cowboy
"Mitski's storytelling is in top form as she squeezes everything you need to know into two and a bit minute, bittersweet vignettes."