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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: Bootsy Collins - World Wide Funk
"Collins helped shape this genre decades ago and under his captaincy it's totally legit."
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Live Review: Peter Hook & The Light
"After a tear-inducingly magical 'True Faith' and '1963', it was in the Joy Division set where Hooky's voice was really at home."
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Album Review: Kele Okereke - Fatherland
"After all the bravura and noise of his last decade, this rebirth has delivered a very modern album about being a grown-up."
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Album Review: Gary Numan - Savage (Songs From A Broken World)
"Gary Numan's evolution from icy humanoid to gothic nomad continues to hypnotise."
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Album Review: Ben Ely - Strange Tales Of Drugs And Lost Love
"Having Ely stripped down to his guitar and fifty-buck amp yields ample intimate rewards."
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Album Review: Duncan Saige - I'm Saved
"He briefly kisses Jeff Buckley's chords on the humble 'White Glove'."
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Album Review: Hercules & Love Affair - Omnion
"Even Sharon Van Etten's smokey delivery on the title track can't save this glitter-bomb."
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Album Review: Jep And Dep - THEY'VEBEENCALLED
"His brooding ying is elegantly yanged by Jessica Cassar's honeyed vocals and the production remains simply hollowed, often harrowingly dark."
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Album Review: UNKLE - The Road: Part 1
"Where the road goes next is easy to predict."
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Album Review: Zola Jesus - Okovi
"... Far from getting mawkishly nostalgic, [Danilova's] sixth long-player as Zola Jesus sombrely contemplates life and loss."
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Album Review: Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
"Lizzy Grant's cracks only now start to show in moments of collaboration."
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Album Review: Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface
"... As brittle as it is powerful."
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