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

Andrew McDonald, Journalist

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Album Review: Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Slow Focus is menacing, danceable, introverted and wide reaching; it is still a wonderfully hard sell and hardly to suited to pop tastes, which makes it all the more essential and truly one of 2013’s best albums.
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Album Review: Alunageorge - Body Music
For all the praise that can be heaped upon the album’s ideas, the result is frustratingly shallow. The experimental edge never really has room to move and simply serves to constrict the album’s shimmering grooves.
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Album Review: Gogol Bordello - Pura Vida Conspiracy
This doesn’t capture the passion or pleasure on Gogol Bordello’s earlier releases, but it does show a surprisingly sombre and heartfelt tone in between the dancing.
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Album Review: Fourteen Nights At Sea - Great North
Cinematic. Evocative. Atmospheric. Words that are permanently linked to the post-rock movement and which are all suitable in describing Fourteen Nights at Sea’s second full length LP Great North
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Album Review: Var - No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers
No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers won’t live up to the heights established by Ronnenfelt’s main group Iceage, but it’s admirable to be trying to do so in a totally different and unique way.
Reviews / Live
Frenzal Rhomb, Pic by Josh Groom
Live Review: Frenzal Rhomb, Bloods, Batfoot
With an encore of gems Punch In The Face and Never Had So Much Fun, there was little to long for from a night that solidified the band’s position of greatness.
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Album Review: Iamamiwhoami - Bounty
This is fascinating and deep experimental electronica that never loses sight of its danceable pop goals
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Album Review: David Lynch - The Big Dream
The album is without doubt better than Lynch’s 2011 hit and miss Crazy Clown Time; it never falters in its tone or pursuit of its vision
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Album Review: Retox - YPLL
Retox’s YPLL isn’t the art rock saviour it may be touted as, but it’s a nonetheless impressive, aggressive and forward-thinking fiery record, deserving of any punk’s record collection for 2013.
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Live Review: Mono, Mick Turner
Whilst Mono’s recorded output may be in danger of falling into derivative crescendo-core post-rock cliché, live they are as powerful as ever and a true testament to the potential power and majesty of instrumental rock.
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Album Review: Gold Panda - Half Of Where You Live
The peaks aren’t quite as high as they were on his first record, but the overall result is a mature, sophisticated piece of beat-heavy electronica and one of 2013’s more impressive electro releases.
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Album Review: Mindless Self Indulgence - How I Learned To Stop Giving A Shit And Love Mindless Self Indulgence
How I Learned… isn’t quite a return to the group’s highest calibre of childish joy, but it’s a damn fun and surprisingly multi-layered return to form following recent missteps.