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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: Phantogram - Voices
Voices has enough bite to leave a mark but isn’t as menacing as one might hope.
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Album Review: Mike & The Mechanics - Living Years (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
The bonus disc captures the band in cleanly reproduced live form. Disturbingly, it sounds very John Farnham.
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Album Review: Mike & The Mechanics - The Singles 1985-2014
Take the first disc and enjoy the fantasy of being a sensitive ‘80s bloke with a bikini’d girlfriend and beach house. The rest will drag you back into horrible reality.
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Album Review: I, Said The Sparrow - Deathpop
Don’t be fooled by the ‘punk-pop’ tag applied to bolshy Perth quartet I, Said The Sparrow – there’s little punk about their debut, seemingly cobbled together from unwanted bits of Neon Trees and Good Charlotte albums.
Features / Music
The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Mac McNaughton
Mac McNaughton expects an assassination attempt on Tony Abbott in 2014.
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Album Review: Leona Lewis - Christmas With Love
UK X-Factor progeny Leona Lewis’ festive offering wraps a mix of seasonal standards and originals.
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Album Review: Neurotic November - Anunnkai
The band themselves offer much to get excited about, but not enough has been committed to this mostly predictable record.
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Album Review: Rae & Christian - Mercury Rising
Rae & Christian’s return is slinky, sexy and very, very cool.
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Album Review: Kim Wilde - Wilde Winter Songbook
Christmas albums are rightfully dreaded, like the arrival of Drunk Aunty Beryl at lunchtime. But Wilde Winter Songbook shocks and delights by being slightly tipsy and in great spirits.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Muse, Birds Of Tokyo
The pomposity of recent albums may have alienated many, but the OTT spectacle allowed for an irresistible reconnection.
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Album Review: Daughtry - Baptized
Rather than simply boring in its lack of ideas, Baptized drowns you in an acrid stench of money.
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Album Review: Benedict Moleta - The Magical World
The Magical World is one of those marvelous wake-up calls to remind us that while the sun still shines here in the west, things ain’t so bad at all.