With Olympia, Austra sets its sights on the dance floor.
Austra
Music
You could say we’ve been psyched to hear Austra’s new record Olympia since we saw the band play some of it at SXSW, but in fact, we’ve been psyched for Olympia since…
Music
So many of Austra’s best songs are about the pain of love – think their recent single ”Home,” in which frontwoman Katie Stelmanis muses “You know that it hurts me when…
Videos
Austra’s “Home” is one of our favorite songs of the year (and it’s got us super psyched for the band’s upcoming sophomore record Olympia) and now it has a video, by…
Stream
It’s been a little more than two years since Austra’s debut LP, Feel It Break, and in that time they’ve toured with the likes of the xx and Grimes. Somehow,…
Covers
We’re super enamored of the Canadian label Paper Bag’s yearly tradition of gathering all their artists together to cover a classic album – last year they took on Madonna’s True Blue,…
Stream
We’re really into Trust, the chilly electro project of Austra drummer Maya Postepski and Robert Alfons (see: our obsession with their early single “Bulbform”), so we’re psyched about the release…
Videos
Feel It Break, the record of glossy, dark goth-pop Toronto songwriter Katie Stelmanis released last year as Austra, was one of our favorite records of 2011, and its chilly, hypnotic…
Favorite Songs
TRUST is the project of Austra’s brilliantly bespectacled drummer Maya Postepski and her friend Robert Alfons; together, the Toronto duo make a kind of dark, seething synth-pop, all freezing-cold, heartbeat-driven,…
