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

Richard Moore, Journalist

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Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Pissedcolas, Cold Meat, Aborted Tortoise, Nerve Quakes
"A tense set of long, psych-out arrangements, including a terrifying 20-minute conclusion."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf
"A blissful experience that effortlessly transcends the language barrier."
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Album Review: Black Stone From The Sun - Death Threats And Cigarettes
"Boasts strong, solid, heavy grunge for the appreciators, a mark of what is definitely coming back in force."
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Album Review: The Hard Aches - Pheromones
"Stripped-back, barely-driven guitar and kit and a penchant for pouring their hearts into their lyrics. "
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Album Review: Our Man in Berlin - Spirit Down
"'Spirit Down' marks a crystallisation of the group’s ethereal, reverb-driven music."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Big Splash Heat #2 - Cool Band, Hindley, Mugwump, The Wheelers Of Oz
"This band of the usual suspects, featuring members of previous winners Hideous Sun Demon, stole the crowd with their cheeky, crass and dumb lyrics."
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Live Review: The Scientists, The Television Addicts, Le Hoodoo Gurus, The Dubrovniks, The Painkillers, Spencer P Jones, Greg Dear
"Proto-punk outfit The Television Addicts (previously The Victims) tore up the crowd next with sharp resurrected renditions of their classics before The Scientists took to the stage, pausing for breath."
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Live Review: Peter Bibby, HAMJAM, Rabbit Island
"Peter Bibby is slurring into the mic, “We got a very special show tonight…” over his engraved National steel guitar"
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Album Review: Super Furry Animals - Mwng (Deluxe Reissue)
"Warm, folky tunes like 'Ymaelodi Ar Ymylon' usher the listener through a plush summer"
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Live Review: The Murlocs, Doctopus, Hamjam, Kitchen People
"Shirts came off, delirious garage rock peaked, and Adolescence met willing ears."
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Album Review: Errors - Lease Of Life
"High gloss and harking back to ‘80s synthetic new wave, Lease Of Life blurs together into one formless entity..."
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Live Review: Foam, Hideous Sun Demon, Super Best Friends, Shit Narnia, Skullcave
"Foam’s mumbled, off-key grunge ground out over mulching bass lines, a wall of noise and organic pulse framed by a vicious mosh."