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

Mac McNaughton, Journalist

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Album Review: The Settlement - Stand In The Middle
"Here, The Settlement successfully dump tired country music tropes to welcome everyone in for a drink."
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Album Review: Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence
"Opener 'Less Than' is as radio friendly as Trent Reznor...has ever been."
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Album Review: Mecha Mecha - Blink And You'll Miss It
"... A truckload of multi-instrumental talent bursting at the seams and begging to be explored."
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Album Review: Tex, Don & Charlie - You Don't Know Lonely
"Trademark zingers occasionally threaten to drag you from the husky darkness."
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Album Review: Alison Moyet - Other
"Alison Moyet's force of nature voice remains as arrestingly powerful as ever."
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Album Review: Saint Etienne - Home Counties
"Celebrating, deriding and re-daydreaming the home counties that surround London with typically kitsch and swinging panache."
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Album Review: The Charlatans - Different Days
"Pleasantly distracting, but unlike 'Modern Nature', inessential."
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Album Review: Erasure - World Be Gone
"There's little here that sparkles, even less that actually moves."
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Album Review: Coldcut & On-U Sound - Outside The Echo Chamber
"It all seems a smidge more 'pop' than expected, but there's stacks going on."
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Album Review: Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution
"A late career peak of grandeur that seems almost effortless."
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Album Review: Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud
"'You're In Love With A Psycho' is a scratch'n'win moment of pop genius."
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Album Review: Screamfeeder - Pop Guilt
".... At their boisterously sparring peak albeit with a dewy-eyed ripple of Aussie roughage."
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