Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the long-players released in April that I’ve caught so far by Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
New Albums This Month: May 2025

Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the long-players released in April that I’ve caught so far by Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
Every week, I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always only releases […]
“Milly McPherson can clearly carry a song all on her own, but with a band around her itβs elevated, a giant voice standing on the shoulders of harmony and rhythm and melody. The songs range wildly from earthy and grounded to high-altitude soaring but none of them falter. It shines, basically.” Gallery Listen
“Milly McPherson baits with arch and wry songs, all raised eyebrows and dry wit, before the switch comes and knocks you backwards with huge choruses and a voice to raise the hairs on a dead manβs arm. Itβs confident and itβs complex, a soaring set of intelligent, impressive songwriting.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Milly McPherson and her band play with such joy itβs enough to short circuit a synapse. Bubbling guitars and rhythms underpin a vocal that flies between laconic and stratospheric, songs that go from melancholic to ecstatic. All the way through there is enough bounce to keep you pinging off the walls long after it ends.” […]