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

Christopher H James, Journalist

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Album Review: Animal Collective - Tangerine Reef
"Overall the album has the feel of a commissioned piece that the band's hearts were only ever half into."
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Album Review: Hideous Sun Demon - Fame Erotic Dream
"A restless combination of garage, adverse psychedelics and pure energy."
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Album Review: Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
"The sound of a colossal middle digit being flipped at purists everywhere."
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Album Review: Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving - No Tether
"It's the sort of ominous, high tension music that ought to soundtrack a death-defying cliff-hanger sequence."
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Album Review: Rebel Yell - Hired Muscle
"Hired Muscle is loaded with enough heft, chutzpah and creativity to destroy both eardrums and unsuspecting dancefloors."
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Album Review: Tangents - New Bodies
"It's post-rock, post-jazz, post-electronic - post just about everything."
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Album Review: Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage
"A proper exotic delight that flits hither and thither in the most unexpected ways."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Iron & Wine, Fraser A Gorman
"Beam remarked that he was glad we like super-depressing songs and wryly warned that he had a couple more."
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Album Review: Neko Case - Hell-On
"A bona fide return to form for Case."
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Album Review: Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
"Overall this might be the most accomplished work of a true visionary."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Tropical Fuck Storm, Calm;y, Nerve Quakes
"At times it was a performance so mesmerising, it might just justify Liddiard mothballing The Drones in order to pursue Tropical Fuck Storm full time."
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Live Review: WAM Song Of The Year Awards 2018
"Tonight provided further evidence that WA is not just about the mining."
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