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Toronto, ON, Canada (2010 – present)

Austra are an band from Toronto, ON, Canada comprising Katie Stelmanis (principal songwriter), Maya Postepski, and Dorian Wolf. They débuted with the single “The Beat And The Pulse” (November 2010, One Big Silence), and their latest release is the remix album “Sparkle” (July 2011, Domino) .

Their debut album, “Feel It Break” (May 2011, Domino), came after a long sequence of bands for Stelmanis, representing a near ten year musical progression performing as an artist, then fleshed-out by a full band. More settled and dominant than ever, the band’s sound represents Stelmanis’ influences tightened into a shiny metal ball — pianos give way to keyboards as songs build and pull, their urgent, dark melodies arpeggiating through multiple synthesizers, wrapping themselves around Stelmanis’ voice.

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  • MelancholyRose

    As a keyboard player, I'm very impressed with Austra's synth sounds. It's so hard to make just the right sound for the synth parts, even if it's easy in your head...

    Wednesday afternoon

  • Dysfunctional_K

    Austra is not only Katie. Please, don't vote only for her pictures! [3]

    Tuesday evening

  • markitoast

    http://markeetoastmusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/experimente-austra.html

    Tuesday evening

  • Deteriorado

    Austra is not only Katie. Please, don't vote only for her pictures! [2]

    Monday morning

  • Deturpado

    Austra is not only Katie. Please, don't vote only for her pictures!

    Monday morning

  • grettatron

    come to New York! please and thank you

    Monday morning

  • JTLDN

    awesome cover of robyn!

    Saturday afternoon

  • Deturpado

    <3

    last week

  • avrilsmaleslut

    2deep4u

    last week

  • CesaarAlvees

    <3

    last week

  • nagchomper

    hipster garbage? really? this coming from a guy whose 2nd most listened to artist is m83 and 4th is justice? riiiiiiiight

    15 days ago

  • tcallahan

    stelmanis used to stay at my apartment while in nyc cuz she was tight with my roommate. real nice/talented girl, still haven't heard her music but now that i see class actress and chelsea wolfe up in the similar artists i might check i tout.

    17 days ago

  • Julie208

    The Villain is so great !

    17 days ago

  • ry47

    I want to see Austra again so badly! Considering flying to Sydney

    17 days ago

  • zwega

    amazing band ♥

    17 days ago

  • starbearer-

    hipster garbage? super annoying fake accent?... to dikiz, this obviously isn't even your style of music so not really a valid statement. To Ewiges... are you f#cking kidding me? Gothic music is traditionally filled with "fake" accents. Where have YOU been over the past 25 years? lol... try listening to a few of the great american death rock bands from the late eighties... lots of fake accents but its all pretty awesome. Obviously you two were just sharing your view, but I think this band is probably the best gothish type band to come around in a long long time. The sounds are dark. The engineering is suberb in that everything is well rounded and not trying to be HIFI which could have killed that Feel it Break album. This band has obviously spent a long time crafting its sound which you really don't hear a lot of these days. Another amazing thing... not a whole lot of pitch correction here. These ladies have superb control over their voices. Can't wait to see them live.

    19 days ago

  • Tattooheart

    Perfect

    20 days ago

  • youngestfire

    TRST

    21 days ago

  • mooiboyfres

    dikiz is right

    21 days ago

  • w_ell

    Lose It <3

    21 days ago
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Welcome to myspace.com/austra

12 Oct 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/austra

My new band name is Austra, and this is our new home on myspace.I'm glad you've found us.

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