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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: Bis - The Anthology - 20 Years Of Antiseptic Poetry
"This anthology is a fun playbox of youthful daft punking."
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Album Review: Royksopp The Inevitable End
How dare they quit a format they’re so damned good at!
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Album Review: Guy Pearce - Broken Bones
"Broken Bones’ lushly produced contemplations are as welcome as Bouncer’s adorably wet nose."
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Album Review: Philip Selway - Weatherhouse
Weatherhouse is masterful in its manipulation of melancholia without being too heavy-handed.
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Album Review: Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (20th Anniversary edition)
"Dubnobasswithmyheadman remains a flawless touchstone in techno’s history."
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Album Review: Various Artists - Late Night Tales: Franz Ferdinand
"Alex Kapranos’ brogue sends us off unto the eventide with a reading of a self-penned late night tale"
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Album Review: Julian Casablancas + The Voidz - Tyranny
"Tyranny is not the sound of a man in a happy place"
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Album Review: Erasure - The Violent Flame
"The Violet Flame burns comfortably enough without getting anyone particularly hot or sweaty"
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Album Review: Cat Canteri - When We Were Young
Things are kept rustic with splashes of post-rock
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Album Review: Queen - Live At The Rainbow '74
These two concerts proved to be a coronation of a live reputation that would remain their hallmark
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Album Review: Maroon 5 - V
"Things rarely rise above blandly forgettable"
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Album Review: The Tea Party - The Ocean At The End
The Ocean At The End is evidence of ten years’ shore leave well used.