Austra - Hirudin - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Future Politics, Austra's third, and most ambitious album to date, calls for radical hope Incha commitment to replace the approaching dystopia,Inch says Katie Stelmanis. InchNot just hope in the future, but the idea that everyone is required to help write it, and the boundaries of what it can look like are both fascinating and endless. It's not about 'being political,' it's about reaching beyond boundaries, in every single field.Inch A collection of urgent, but disciplined anthems for dancefloor and headphones, Future Politics asks each of us to remember that apocalypse is not an inevitability, but the product of human decision-making. It aims for a world without borders, where human compassion and curiosity drive technological innovation rather than profit, where the necessity of labor is replaced with time for creativity and personal growth, and the terror and destruction wrought by colonialism and white supremacy is recognized as a dark age in human history. The album is radicalism distilled to galvanic beats, gorgeous, kinetic melodies, and the vulnerable majesty of Stelmanis's voice. With it's steady, propulsive beats and siren-like synth hooks, it's both anthem and ultimatum we have a duty to imagine better, and to imagine big. Album Tracks 1. We Were Alive 2. Future Politics 3. Utopia 4. I'm a Monster 5. I Love You More Than You Love Yourself 6. Angel in Your Eye 7. Freepower 8. Gaia 9. Beyond a Mortal 10. Deep Thought 11. 43

I'm so chaotic in love, sings Katie Austra Stelmanis on InchAmnesia,Inch the cinematic opening track of Chin Up Buttercup, the fifth album by her alter ego and longtime pop project Austra. You know Austra's astonishing voice - singular and operatic, it betrays a fearlessness and sophistication. She's the woman you'd be afraid to approach in a bar. Her voice draws you like a siren to the dance floor as the beats build toward the hypnotic chorus of Inchmy life is not the same without you in my arms.Inch Listen closely and you'll hear a vulnerability that sets this album apart from her earlier work. This is a grief album you can dance to.Stelmanis and co-producer Kieran Adams shared a mutual love of pop divas, Eurodance and hard-to-find techno. Madonna's 1998 album Ray of Light, produced by William Orbit, was a key influence in the later stages of album making InchRay of Light was produced almost entirely on a Juno-106 and a Korg MS-20 which we'd been using, so the reference point was aligned,Inch says Stelmanis. The album sounds like a mix of hypnotic dance floor anthems and elegant melodies to soothe your broken heart. Album Tracks 1. ?Amnesia 2. Math Equation 3. Siren Song 4. Chin Up Buttercup 5. Fallen Cloud 6. Blindsided 7. Think Twice 8. Look Me in the Eye 9. The Hopefulness of Dawn 10. Good Riddance

On FEEL IT BREAK, Austra have crafted a stark, danceable masterpiece suitable for both ritual incantations and clubs; an album hearkening back to the sleazier side of New Wave but still deeply rooted in lead singer Katie Stelmaniss classical and operatic upbringing. Album Tracks 1. Darken Her Horse 2. Lose It 3. The Future 4. Beat and the Pulse 5. Spellwork 6. The Choke 7. Hate Crime 8. The Villain 9. Shoot the Water 10. The Noise 11. The Beast