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

Andrew McDonald, Journalist

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Live Review: Crime & The City Solution, Sleepy Sun & Pearls
Never the most immediate of bands, Crime still present an incredible and powerful live show.
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Album Review: Atoms For Peace - Amok
This is a pleasant, occasionally excellent, danceable and quasi-experimental record, and is sure to satisfy those wanting more Thom Yorke.
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Live Review: Swans & Christoph Hahn
This set was draining, physically and emotionally, to be sure, and could be seen as being music for masochists; but there was beauty in the brutality.
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Album Review: Fidlar - Fidlar
This is dumb, obnoxious, energetic and childish fun – and god it’s done brilliantly.
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Album Review: Sleepy Sun - Spine Hits
As it stands, Spine Hits is an indicator of a band torn between ideas.
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Album Review: Iceage You're Nothing
The record does everything right, doesn’t outstay its welcome and confronts the listener; there’s little chance fans won’t adore this punk, guttural torrent of noise.
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Album Review: Alice Russell - To Dust
This is neo-soul, funky jazz pop for 2013.
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Album Review: Kim Salmon & Spencer P Jones - Runaways
Runaways is a hell of a rocker and a more than worthy addition to these two gents’ oeuvres.
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Album Review: Unitopia - Covered Mirror Vol 1: Smooth As Silk
Slightly bending songs you adore gives comfort and pleasure to the player; it’s just a shame that the average listener won’t derive half as much.
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Album Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
It won’t be the release everyone wants, but it’s a brilliant, aching and fragile record.
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Album Review: My Bloody Valentine - m b v
It won’t win over unbelievers, but regardless, m b v is an absolute triumph.
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Album Review: Apparat - Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
Interesting, occasionally challenging and brilliant, this drone-cum-neoclassical record should appeal to most people with a bent for the introspective and creepy.
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