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

Dylan Stewart, Journalist

Features / Music
On The Line
"You’re putting yourself out there to fail; and there’s not a single human being who wants to fail, especially publicly."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Big Scary - Not Art
Some of the drums recall DJ Shadow, but more often Big Scary blaze their own trail, and it works well for them.
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Album Review: Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
While not a party album like previous releases, Modern Vampires… is, without doubt, Vampire Weekend’s most accomplished record yet.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Something For Kate, Courtney Barnett
The band does the obligatory encore, finishing with Déjà Vu and the rambunctious Electricity, the near-two hour set once again showing that Something for Kate can truly bring it.
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Album Review: Tyga - Hotel California
While Tyga has a lot of work to do before he can separate himself from the rest and reside in such illustrious company, Hotel California shows serious potential.
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Album Review: The Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay
For The Milk Carton Kids, though, their brightest days are ahead of them, The Ash & Clay the next rung in the ornate, beautiful ladder that they are climbing.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: New Gods, Valentine
The sound and lights are once again perfect – helloooo, glitter ball! – and this ski chalet-lookin’ place is becoming a definite favourite. New Gods do it justice.
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Album Review: The Postal Service - Give Up (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
When given the musical quality of Give Up, Gibbard, Tamborello and Lewis have their priorities right.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Frightened Rabbit, Admiral Fallow
It’s time to get that cardigan and escape into the night, ears ringing and face plastered with a smile.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Vance Joy, Ali Barter
Joy burns through songs from his debut EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing, finishing with lead single Riptide to a very happy audience.
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Live Review: Songs, The Terrible Truths
Instead, their comfortable stage presence and genuine enthusiasm, not to mention serious volume, has everyone in the room excited about just how far Songs will go in 2013 and beyond.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love
It would be unwise to categorise Victim Of Love in the ‘easy listening’ genre like you would with, say, Michael Kiwanuka or Al Green.