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

Christopher H James, Journalist

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Album Review: Touch Sensitive - Visions
"The relentless optimism veers toward the bland after a while."
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Album Review: Ariel Pink - Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
"His 11th album is reliably inconsistent."
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Album Review: Alvvays - Antisocialites
"Not since The Smiths has anyone turned despondent, morose lyrics into jangly indie-disco floor fillers."
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Album Review: Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
"Mount Kimbie's new path seems to have taken them further away from the idiosyncrasies and quirkiness that made them stand out in the first place."
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Album Review: EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring
"[EMA] has graduated from making albums with great moments to an album that burns throughout."
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Album Review: Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
"As the album wears on it sounds as if the wind's been taken out of their sails."
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Album Review: Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes
"Something of a missed opportunity."
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Album Review: Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
"'Neighbors' is another highlight; a mysteriously dark beauty that shifts in colour and shade like tropical shadows at sundown..."
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Album Review: Hamjam - a/s/l?
"There are a few inspired moments where disaffected apathy meets plastic soul breeziness, but it slumps away towards the end."
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Album Review: The Bombay Royale - Run Kitty Run
"Time to get lost on another daring adventure through an imaginary Bollywood."
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Album Review: POW! Negro - Jasmine & Licorice
"The latest craze from Perth can't seem to decide if they're more plugged into '70s jazz-funk or Rage Against The Machine."
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