"As proponents of strident, goth-tinged electronica, this Toronto trio are in good company" (Source: Guardian)
Austra is the Toronto trio of vocalist/pianist/etc Katie Stelmanis (ex-Galaxy), drummer Maya Postepski (ex-Galaxy, currently TRUST), and bassist Dorian Wolf (ex-Spiral Beach), but the bulk of the band’s promo photos feature the singer by her lonesome.
Stelmanis joined the Canadian Children’s Opera at 10, sang for the Canadian Opera Company, and pursued a career in opera (while learning viola and piano) until she attended a punk show and joined a band. Instead of going on to focus on music in college, she listened to NIN and the Knife and started doing production work (for soundtracks and local plays), deciding she wanted to “make classical music with really fucked up, distorted crazy shit on there.”
Austra's debut represents the musical progression of almost 10 years of performing as an artist, resulting in minor-key operatics, industrial dance, and sleazy '80s new-wave à la Soft Cell.
Debut LP Feel It Break will be released on May 16th.
Austra @ Myspace, Twitter, Facebook
Source: Prefix, Stereogum
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