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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Datarock - Face The Brutality
"Pretty much exactly what they were doing 13 years ago."
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Album Review: Editors - Violence
"The world is fucked; here's our catharsis."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt
"... On this 15th studio album he returns to the orchestral trip-hoppiness that arguably forged his most popular guise: The 'Eco Soul Raver'."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Primal Scream, Sshh
"If you've taken it, chances are the 'Scream have done an album on it."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life
"It ends with a rare question for a Wombats album: Was that it!?"
Features / Music
The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Mac McNaughton
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Culture Club, The Human League, Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins), Hoseah Partsch
"All four original members (Boy George, Mikey Craig, Roy Hay and Jon Moss) still look more fabulous than ever despite the legendarily hedonistic decades that have passed."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Pete Tong, The Heritage Orchestra & Jules Buckley - Ibiza Classics
"The extra labour has taken away a little more than it's added."
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Album Review: Sunscreen - Just A Drop
"As raw as any Mazzy Star or early Pretenders record."
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Album Review: Evanescence - Synthesis
"Unlistenable self-indulgence."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Morrissey - Low In High School
"The 58-year-old is still as horny and frustrated as ever."
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Album Review: Shed Seven - Instant Pleasures
"They sound less like their jangly, '90s incarnation and more like Kasabian on the pull with Hard-Fi's commercial gloss."
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