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

Andrew McDonald, Journalist

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Album Review: Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Fans will enjoy this new dosage of lush, beat interrupting cinematic electronica and appreciate the variations, but there’s little to return to here.
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Live Review: Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine, The Hard-Ons, Zeahorse
He isn’t content to belt out the hits - he has relevant, angry things to say about today - damned are the crowd if they’re not down with hearing them.
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Album Review: No Joy - Wait To Pleasure
No Joy have shown that they’re a solid head above their contemporaries with this release, which will prove to be essential to the genre’s fans and might just win over the unconverted.
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Album Review: Fourteen Nights At Sea - Great North
Great North does not reinvent the genre, but it’s a brilliant Australian record and for fans of TWDY or modern instrumental/post-rock in general it’s utterly essential.
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Album Review: Marnie Stern - The Chronicles Of Marnia
This album is Stern’s most controlled, forward-thinking and planned, and behind all the fury and energy, this shines through.
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Album Review: Deptford Goth - Life After Defo
In the end, this is a fine debut, very rooted in ‘early 2010s’ electro sounds and hopefully a sign of better things to come.
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Album Review: Suuns - Images Du Futur
Every line is muttered through gritted teeth and with steely reserve.
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Album Review: Primal Scream - More Light
More Light is the group’s best, probably since XTRMNTR, but it still falls short of their own high standards, set an increasingly long time ago.
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Album Review: Joshua Redman - Walking Shadows
At its best, it’s seductive, gorgeous and the ideal backing to a nice drink with close company. It’s just a shame it occasionally falls into cliché and background 1950s theatre music.
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Album Review: Four Tet - Rounds (Tenth Anniversary Reissue)
If you’re yet to hear this record, now’s a great time to amend that.
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Album Review: The Child Of Lov - The Child Of Lov
The Child Of Lov is a good artist, no doubt, but perhaps if on future releases he picks between irony and conviction as chief tonal crutch, he’ll be a great one.
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Album Review: Phoenix - Bankrupt!
The record is not the revelation Wolfgang… was, but it’s perhaps equally as brilliant, certainly as fun and totally relevant to 2013.