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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: Tanita Tikaram - Closer To The People
"...one could almost feel guilty for losing touch."
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Album Review: New Order - Singularity (Remixes)
"The Tom Rowland Remix of 'Tutti-Frutti' is a worthy take-two though."
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Album Review: Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future
"Barbara is anything but an upper."
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Album Review: Turin Brakes - Lost Property
"Still awaiting an 'Ooh, them!' mega-hit, which is befuddling considering their consistency across six albums to date."
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Album Review: Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night
"Vegas ballroom exuberance is replicated with a lethargic bounciness, delivering nought but B-grade deja vu."
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Album Review: Mystery Jets - Curve Of The Earth
"The record tries hard to possess awe-inspiring atmospherics and the studiophiles will have a field day ticking off the production techniques."
Features / Music
The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Mac McNaughton
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Album Review: Felix Riebl - Lonely Truth
"Riebl sits comfortably behind the piano with a ragtag gang of scruffy mates in a forgotten alley wine bar away from the bustle."
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Album Review: Charles Murdoch - Point
"Charles Murdoch's world is made of humid slo-mo sex and dreams of bathing in neon lights."
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Album Review: Soulsavers - Kubrick
"Like Kubrick's films themselves, working it out is half the fun."
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Album Review: Natalie Merchant - Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings
"These are Natalie Merchant's songs and frankly, she can do whatever the bloody hell she wants with them."
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Album Review: Erasure Always - The Very Best Of Erasure
"They deserve better."