Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the long-players I’ve caught across the month by Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
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New Albums This Month: July 2025
Author: Alex Kirk
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Euan Hart @ Metro Social, 30th Jul
“Euan Hart twangs and chugs, hammers and harmonises, with a smart set made of ecstatic highs and emotional lows and all points between. The songwriting knows *just* how to handle itself – tough when it needs, but quiet when the mood strikes. There’s country like grass, but there are sharp edges like cut concrete too. […]
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Banana Farm @ Metro Social, 30th Jul
“Banana Farm split their time between jazzy notes and fuzzy roars, the smooth and the snarl. Each are equally accomplished, but the mix is a punch with pinch.” Gallery Listen
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Mima And The Band @ Metro Social, 30th Jul
“Mima And The Band open up tonight like a shower of stars, glittering gems of country- and folk-tinged wonder. Everyday Sydney references mix in with old wisdom into one of the prettiest, richest, most genuinely touching sets you’ll hear in a while. Quiet as mice, but it’ll knock you down cold.” Gallery
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Gigs In Sydney This Week | 30 Jul-3 Aug
Every week I pick out a bunch of interesting shows featuring emerging, DIY, and independent Australian artists. The full list of shows this week are below – those are the ones to get out to in the next few days. Don’t forget, there’s also a futuristic-y dashboard here that lets you look ahead if you […]
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Punish @ The Enmore Hotel, 27th Jul
“Punish are spiked and razor-edged all over, with not a single surface that doesn’t draw blood. Eyeball-bursting velocity, eardrum-splitting rage, and nose-breaking volume, all mashed into giant, furious, and enormous songs. Hurts good.” Gallery Listen
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Outcest @ The Enmore Hotel, 27th Jul
“Outcest’s raucous punk and hardcore has a shiny metal edge that slices at your shins and forehead from the off, savage mayhem with a grin six miles wide.” Gallery Listen
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By The Numbers #004: 28th Jul 2025
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and tastemakers are making on […]
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.