Katie Stelmanis is shook. After retreating to Mexico City following a worldwide tour for her 2013 sophomore album, Olympia, the frontwoman of the Toronto-based band Austra finally began to realize how ...

Canadian art pop experimentalist Austra is back with her first new material since her 2017 album, Future Politics. It's a skittering, and at times soaring track called "Risk It," built around a ...

Calling Chin Up Buttercup a breakup album may be factually accurate but it's woefully inadequate when describing the music aimed at reconstructing life after turbulent relationship heartache and loss.

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? “Future politics” is a phrase that might have sounded vaguely hopeful ...

The last time we checked in with Austra, the dark electroni-pop act was a three-piece overseen by Katie Stelmanis, a former Fucked Up contributor with an operatic voice and a palpable affinity for ...

Austra is back with her first new single since 2017’s Future Politics. Featuring a skittering beat, warm horn pulses and pitched-up vocals, “Risk It” is an instantly appealing track and it also marks ...

Mention synthesizers and dance beats in the same breath these days, and pop fans automatically assume you're talking about electronic dance music, the insistent pulse of the current Top 40. It's brash ...

It was hard to imagine how Austra, a clubby electronic outfit from Toronto, would sound early in the day in an intimate environment. But Katie Stelmanis and her two vocalists kindly obliged, singing a ...

Austra‘s new album and first since 2020, Chin Up Buttercup, is out in November, and she’s given us another preview with the gorgeous “Siren Song.” She co-wrote it with Patrick Holland, and says, ...

When is a dance band not a dance band? For some groups, the answer to that question would reflect a range of musical failures, from flat-footed drumming to an overall lack of groove, but happily, that ...