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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: Leftfield - Alternative Light Source
"'Alternative Light Source'’s arrival is as blindingly unexpected as it is dazzlingly brilliant."
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Album Review: Maribou State - Portraits
"Their debut recalls a sorry time in electronic music history when cafés and decaying bricked hipster record stores became overstocked with $5 CDs."
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Album Review: Ben Lee - Love Is The Great Rebellion
"'Love Is The Great Rebellion' delivers homely cosiness, but the short-term appeal puts it on the shelf a little too quickly"
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Adrienne Truscott: Asking For It
"Truscott – quite astonishingly – manages to be provocative and funny"
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Album Review: Tim Rogers & The Bamboos - The Rules of Attraction
"Rogers’ cigarettes-and-alcohol-seasoned larynx lends itself spectacularly to a big band"
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Album Review: Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern
"This is very much a modern record drawing on a galaxy of musical influences"
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Album Review: Timberwolf - Flux
"A strong festival circuit career is pretty much assured"
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Album Review: T:dy T:wns - sistercity
"Too many confectioners spoil the sweeties on the debut long player from a Melbourne collective"
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Album Review: MG - MG
"When an album’s dots connect on shuffle as well as they do in order, the mission is well and truly accomplished."
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Album Review: Red Jezebel - Coup De Grace
"Coup De Grâce sounds like most of the last eight years was spent being added to and simmered like a finely-tuned hearty soup."
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Album Review: Therapy? - Disquiet
"A welcome return."
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Album Review: Paul Mac -- Holiday From Me
"Perhaps the years leading us in dance has left Paul Mac tired and emotional and he really does need a holiday from himself."