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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: Christine & The Queens - Chris
"'Chris' is as much about fucking, loving, and getting lost in the chase for a cisgender heterosexual as it is for someone whose place is not so easily defined."
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Album Review: DREAMS - No One Defeats Us
"There doesn't seem to be a lot of depth behind the masquerading."
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Album Review: Passenger - Runaway
"An over enthusiasm for the lap steel guitar doesn't really fit as well with his gorgeously feline vocals as one might hope"
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Album Review: Candi Staton - Unstoppable
"Unstoppable is well named, an album born as much of political protest as it is a cry against apathy."
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Album Review: Paces - ZAG
"Everything sounds a little too claustrophobically produced on a laptop to last long enough to be embraced as a summer record."
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Album Review: Regurgitator - Headroxx
"Genres get characteristically spliced and diced while the lads seem to be having a shitload of fun."
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Album Review: James - Living In Extraordinary Times
"We are indeed living in the most unfortunate of extraordinary times and it shows in James' most intense album of recent years."
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Album Review: Phantastic Ferniture - Phantastic Ferniture
"Kinda dreamy, kinda damaged and rather melancholic."
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Album Review: Underworld And Iggy Pop - Tea Time Dub Encounters
"He's once again baiting what you shouldn't really say in a PC world but it's refreshingly raw."
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Album Review: Odette - To A Stranger
"Throughout this often confessional debut long player it is Odette's voice that takes the centre on what remains an intimately small stage."
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Album Review: Guy Pearce - The Nomad
"It's a deeply personal long player that truth be told, can be a bit hard to penetrate."
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Album Review: Soulwax - Essential
"So quintessentially Soulwax."