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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Rosie Lowe - YU
"'YU' proves to be a richly atmospheric experience."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Get Up Kids – Problems
"[I]magine if Train turned it up to 11."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Chemical Brothers - No Geography
"A solid dance album of pure escapism."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: UNKLE - The Road: Part II / Lost Highway
"For the first time in a while for UNKLE, the road ahead looks like it’s going somewhere."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Sleeper - The Modern Age
"Absolutely nothing is reinvented yet nothing is stale either."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Orbital, Feels
"Orbital delivered a masterclass...helping people connect to it by keeping everyone dancing."
Features / Music
The Music 2018 Writers' Poll: Mac McNaughton
Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2018...
Reviews / Live
Live Review: James, Nadeah
"Tim Booth stopped to absolutely bollock any mobile phone wielders, asking they put the bloody things down and enjoy a real human connection instead."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol 1 / LP: No Past, No Future, No Sun
"The original band may be (almost completely) back together but all songs are very much - at least on paper - Corgan’s own."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - The Capitol Studios Sessions
"This live recording provides all the smiles you hoped he’d deliver."
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Album Review: The Prodigy - No Tourists
"Beats get smashed out like typewriters having a hissy fit."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now
"Nary a second nor space is wasted in these twelve songs."
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