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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: Melanie De Biasio - No Deal
Closer With All My Love lovingly pays tribute to the fragile production on Talk Talk’s seminal Spirit Of Eden and is worthy of admission price alone.
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Album Review: Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant
Still reliably inclined to tell melancholic stories in a folky style, there’s also much lyrical warmth to be found making Natalie Merchant a deeply personal but completely absorbing songbook.
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Album Review: Shonen Knife - Overdrive
Sole original member Naoko Yamano’s vocals remain yelpy yet youthful, making Overdrive a fine entry point to newcomers while satiating the punky appetites of the fans.
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Album Review: Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual (A 30th Anniversary Celebration)
The bonus disc’s awful remixes and demos (three versions each of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Time After Time) plus inessential odds and sods only strengthen the adage that some things are best left in the ‘80s.
Features / Music
Junkies Excel
"This album is sounding fucking sexy."
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Album Review: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (40th Anniversary Edition)
"If you only own one album by The Bitch, this should be it."
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Album Review: Junkie XL - 300: Rise Of An Empire Soundtrack
Nothing here makes you truly feel the unstoppable thunder of the mighty Greeks.
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Album Review: Kylie Minogue - Kiss Me Once
Kiss Me Once is the kind of important album that anyone forced to live in the closet can cling to as they wait for the day they can burst out and sing, “When I got my back up against the wall/Don’t need no one to rescue me”.
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Album Review: Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
Possibly the only Mancunian band not to have disintegrated into fisticuffs
Reviews / Live
Live Review: DJ Shadow, Sampology
He may forever be trying to break free of the shadow of his classic Endtroducing/Private Press period but as he reminded us when recovering from an earlier technical hitch: “‘Keep looking forward’- that’s my motto.”
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Album Review: Paces - Julian EP
Another parasol on the party beach courtesy of Gold Coast producer Mike Perry, Julian is a more restrained, almost basic piece of skippity club tropicalia than we’ve come to expect from Paces.
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Album Review: Suzanne Vega - Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles
Her marshmallowy vocals still sweeten humbled guitar strumming and simple slap-percussion, particularly on tender ode to a passed relative, Silver Bridge.
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