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

Andrew McDonald, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Residents, Victor Martinez
"A throbbing, modern-electronic rock concert, interrupted only by increasingly absurd short films."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Divine Times
"As great as the other acts were, this mini-festival was always about The Jesus & Mary Chain."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Savages - Adore Life
"For anyone even vaguely interested in angry music, the 2016 benchmark has been set."
Features / Music
The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Andrew McDonald
Reviews / Album
Album Review: SOPHIE - Product
"This is one of the finest left-of-field pop releases of the year; hyperactive, so cute it's sickening and utterly unique in the landscape of 2015."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Goat, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Orb
"Playing an experimental fusion of '70s style psych-rock with flourishes of afrobeat and acid-rock driven by the hauntingly cloaked dual vocalists."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mono, Fourteen Nights At Sea, Tangents
"Slow build-ups quickly yielded fiercely intense guitar jams, reaching the space the band love to exist in."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Automat, Hinterlandt
"Stripped of the guest vocalists present on the recorded artefacts, the band's kosmiche-influenced repetitive electro-rocking becomes trance-like."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: British Sea Power - Sea Of Brass
"This latest LP is perhaps their strangest yet."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Russell Morris - Red Dirt Red Heart
"The album is an engrossing listen for a blues fan"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Drones, Batpiss
"The Drones were in boisterous, noisy perfection from the word go."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Arcs - Yours Dreamily
"A proper collaborative band effort with a number of his musical friends joining in on the record."