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

Naaman Zhou, Journalist

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Album Review: Various - Rice Is Nice Mixtape Volume II
"It’s an angular, lo-fi bundle held together with tape, a series of uniques rubbing abrasive shoulders"
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Album Review: Mary Lambert -- Heart On My Sleeve
"Lambert saturates her record with anthemic ballads, making it powerful but sometimes unmemorable."
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Album Review: Microwave Jenny -- Microwave Jenny & The Six Song EP
"Made of very discrete, quantifiable parts, the EP always feels like everything is in its place."
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Album Review: Deena - Black Cat
"This is a singular talent wrapped in common foliage."
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Album Review: Tom Lark - Tom Lark
"A stark admission that Lark needs more arrows to his quiver."
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Album Review: Meghan Trainor - Title
"Digestible despite all good sense."
Features / Music
The Music Writers' Poll 2014: Naaman Zhou
Freelancer
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Album Review: Various - Sounds Of The 80s
"Sounds Of The 80s is uninspiring."
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Album Review: Bertie Blackman - The Dash
"While the appeal of The Dash is undeniable, it’s also less unique."
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Album Review: Broods - Evergreen
Their debut is devoid of missteps, hesitancy or anything wobbly-legged
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Album Review: Emma Heeney - After The Fireworks
It’s a record about regret and missing out – the sense of an ending in a few soft-strunmed chords.
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