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This year was a great year for Australian music, with several outstanding debuts and confident sophomore albums released, alongside a surprise supergroup and big names returning to the studio. Below are our critics’ picks for the best Australian albums released this year, with a playlist of their favourite track on each album so you can have a taster – including the mellow nostalgia of Folk Bitch Trio and Way Dynamic, the energised one-two punch of Baker Boy and Ninajirachi, melancholy from Stella Donnelly and Tame Impala, and anthemic rock from the Belair Lip Bombs and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers to sing out the car window this summer.
