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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: Bryan Adams - Get Up
"Bryan Adams' 13th album really shouldn't sound this forced."
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Album Review: Dave Gahan And Soulsavers - Angels And Ghosts
"The twinkling One Thing and The Last Time's solemnity give Angels & Ghosts a Tarantino-esque cinematic quality."
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Album Review: Guy Garvey - Courting The Squall
"Many of these homely songs feel like they should have been on Build A Rocket Boys, but without the jagged bluster."
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Album Review: Killing Joke - Pylon
"It's fair to say this is a joke that's not ready to be finished."
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Album Review: Avicii - Stories
"Avicii continues to satisfy a global need for unchallenging pop-EDM."
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Album Review: !!! - As If
"!!!'s sixth record sounds hurried, as if elsewhere there was a better party to get to."
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Album Review: Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
"Had she not already called an album Janet, Unbreakable would have been perfectly self-titled."
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Album Review: Editors - In Dream
"In Dream is perhaps the album he may well have made had he lived to a third record."
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Album Review: Emma Pask - Cosita Divina
"Undulating jazz that will sashay in the background of pompous restaurants without anyone turning to Shazam."
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Album Review: New Order - Music Complete
"Frankly, this is unlike any record they've done before."
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Album Review: Aerials - Restless
"Guitars crunch and stab out massive riffs as inspired by mid-noughties emo (ssh!)."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cutting Crew, Paul Young, Go West, Nik Kershaw
"The packed Astor Theatre left reminded of some fabulous '80s hits. And Paul Young."