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

Andrew McDonald, Journalist

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Album Review: The Necks - Open
Open is a living masterwork for those with open ears.
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Album Review: Day Ravies - Tussle
This is modern music, just with an eye to 1991.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Swervedriver, Charlie Horse, Bom Aterg
A second set encore of a handful of Mezcal Head classics and new tunes rounded out the evening, showing that whether the band ever achieve the wider recognition and success they deserve, one cannot argue against their power and swirling beauty, especially live.
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Live Review: The Drones, Harmony
A finale cover of Leonard Cohen’s Diamonds in the Mine was just icing on a very rich cake.
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Album Review: INVSN - INVSN
This is neat, to-the-point, pop-influenced punk rock and it knows it.
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Album Review: Body/Head - Coming Apart
At times hypnotic, at others almost unbearable, it is ultimately a truly rewarding experience for those with an ear for noise.
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Album Review: Nancy Vandal - Flogging A Dead Phoenix
Whether a fond farewell or welcome return, we’re lucky to have this hard-arse rocker.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Drum Roll Please
As long as you don’t mind the art-to-bar ratio being more focused on the latter, the MCA’s monthly night still holds much to be enjoyed and admired and remains a great way to spend a night every few weeks.
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Album Review: Speedy Oritz - Major Arcana
Fuzzy, overdriven guitar is given lead billing here, exploring the soundscape and seeping between every nook and cranny, though never losing sight of pop ideals.
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Album Review: Zola Jesus - Versions
Of the nine songs here, only one is a new track and five are from her most recent LP, so there is a tendency to compare these to the originals or perhaps feel slighted by a cover album of one’s own songs – but this wouldn’t be fair.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Barn Owl, Dead China Doll, Broadcasting Transmitter
From electronic post rock to drone to pulsing experimental dark wave and everything in between, the set could not have been a better presentation of group’s sound...
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Live Review: Daughter, Little Green Cars
Daughter are not the world’s most miraculously innovative or ground-breaking act, but with shows like this, they’re likely to become an indispensable figure of the current pop music landscape.
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