The Toronto band Austra merges classical and electronic sounds beautifully, as evidenced by this riveting session in the KEXP studios. Here, vocalist and keyboardist Katy Stelmanis, drummer Maya ...

If Austra imagines utopia on a mass scale and Japandroids as moments within a lifetime, the phenomenal new release from The xx narrows the lens even further.

Austra's over-intellectualism is not without its benefits, mind you. Where a more beat-obsessed band would simply surrender to groove and fill its songs with endless iterations of the same ...

Austra's first album, Feel It Break, was released to critical acclaim in 2011, ultimately being shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Its follow-up, Olympia , came out in 2013 and made the ...

Austra, a.k.a. Toronto-based Katie Stelmanis, released her debut album Feel It Break all of one month before it was shortlisted for the Polaris Prize. It's easy to see why: The disc pairs clear ...

Culture; Books & the Arts; February 16, 2017; Austra’s Ear for the Moment An Ear for the Moment The singer Austra has been exploring our sense of political dread for a while.

Katie Stelmanis is terrified of the release date of her band Austra's new album, Future Politics.It's not the nerves of putting out her music though, that has Stelmanis concerned about Jan. 20; it ...

Austra’s music is built around the contrast between Katie Stelmanis’s grandly expressive vocal style and the sleek synth-pop framing it. The Canadian foursome judged the mix well on their 2011 ...

Austra’s previous (fourth) studio album, Hirudin, was released in 2020, but diehard fans expecting more electropop songs will be surprised – in a good way – by Swan Song.