Having stumbled upon the wonderful Austra, I quickly delved into a scurry of research as I usually do when I slip back into my teenage-like self.
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| New Album: Feel It Break |
Austra are a Toronto-based band formed in 2009 with 3 core members and today is the day they are releasing their debut album Feel It Break.
Since searching the web, I have repeatedly played two songs in particular, 'Lose It' and 'Beat and The Pulse', with the latter video featuring arty females dancing their slightly revealing hearts out.
This 11-track collection moves with a powerful continious mood with pained vocals, starting with 'Darken Her Horse', moving eventually to 'The Future' and 80s-esque track 'The Choke'.
This album may not make you jump backwards but it is certainly a clear cut stylish synth-pop set of tracks with such incredible vocals from Katie Stelmanis. After training in classical music from a young age, the singer and co-founder admits that all she really wanted to was ultimately make "classical music with really fucked up, distorted, crazy shit on there."
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| Austra |
The trio definitely show off their beat-driven dance-friendly songs with great confiction and in a way that should play out amazingly well to a live audience.
If you are ready to get lost in the music of Austra, catch them at Cargo in Shoreditch on 07 July with as yet unannounced special guests or visit their myspace.com page here
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