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

Jessica Dale, Journalist

Features / Music
An Honest Approach To Album Number Five
"...If you've been lying to yourself for long enough, when you finally tell yourself the truth, you can really connect with honesty."
Features / Music
Gang Of Youths
Repairing, Becoming More Human And Being Followed By Magnolia Flowers
​Jessica Dale caught up with Gang Of Youths' frontman David Le'aupepe ahead of the release of their second album, 'Go Farther In Lightness'. They discuss the process of repairing, becoming more human and how magnolia flowers follow him wherever he goes.
Features / Music
Why Their New Album Isn't As Dancey As Everyone's Saying
"With this one, we wanted it to sound like a band. We'd just come off playing for fucking two years and we felt like a tight band and we wanted it to come across."
Features / Music
"I'm Too Much Of A Perfectionist Sometimes"
"I'd just go through periods where I just didn't feel like writing, and I'd go through periods where I do write but I don't like anything I'm doing."
Features / Music
Why The Preatures Wanted To Smash Binaries On Their Latest Album, 'Girlhood'
"Vulnerability and fragility, they're great strengths."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Gang Of Youths - Go Farther In Lightness
"'Go Farther In Lightness' will prove frontman Dave Le'aupepe as one of Australia's foremost songwriters."
Features / Music
How AIM's Open Day Took Rory Steuart's Music From A Hobby To A Profession
“To be able to sit in a room with that all of sudden, it sparked something inside of me that said ‘this is what I want to do’. It takes it from a hobby to a profession.”
Features / Music
Why Maturity Was Key For The Creases' New Album
"For us as musicians, we feel comfortable with our instruments and our writing."
Features / Music
Why Their Latest Single Was Two Years In The Making
"It's giving people a bigger view of who we are as a band..."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Pete Murray, Ben Wright Smith
"He teased the opening lines of 'So Beautiful', before finally giving in and giving the crowd the song they so desperately wanted to hear."
Features / Music
Managing A Double Degree, Part-Time Work And A Full-Time Music Career
Features / Music
Why An Australian Stopover Is Crucial Before SXSW
"SXSW is about the best way that you can get through to media and the music business in America in one shot."
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