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

Jessica Dale, Journalist

Features / Music
Following Up On An ARIA Award-Winning Album Isn't Easy, But It's Not Rocket Science Either
"I don't think it'll be all that long between drinks this time."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Gang Of Youths
"This life is short and temporary. Do not waste your life, my friends."
Features / Music
From Children's Music To String Quartets
"What I really love about this format is it's a really nice mix of intimacy, as well a more harmonic kind of richness."
News / Music
How Does Vera Blue's New Album Stack Up? We Take You Track By Track
Features / Music
On Laying Her Cards On The Table With New Album
"The album as a whole is very much acknowledging vulnerability and the fact that I wear my heart on my sleeve."
Features / Music
On Releasing The Fastest-Selling Debut Album In Icelandic History
"I think I'm much more complete as a musician now than I was when I was starting out."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Lincoln Le Fevre & The Insiders - Come Undone
"What stands out most throughout 'Come Undone' is Le Fevre's ever descriptive and insightful lyrics."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Japandroids, Body Type
"Three songs in and there's already been a lot more noise pumped out from the duo than what some larger bands achieve playing the same room."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dear Seattle - Dear Seattle
"Get on board, because give it five years and you'll want to be saying you were with them from the start."
Features / Music
Bart Willoughby (pic by Nick Harrison) + Emily Wurramara
Bart Willoughby and Emily Wurramara On The Sounds Of Indigenous Australia Then And Now
"Uncle Bart [and his contemporaries] have set the path for us to follow and have unrestricted those boundaries and really made an example."
Features / Music
Sam Hales On Switching Things Up For The Jungle Giants' Third Album
"I was being easier on myself. Just kind of getting back to playing around. It made me really happy."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Jungle Giants - Quiet Ferocity
"What results is an album that focuses on quality over quantity."
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