Feel It Break
Album | Austra (Band)
Elegantly-constructed electronic indie pop.
Canadian trio Austra walk down a well-traveled road: this kind of minimal but richly-textured electronic pop has roots as far back as Kraftwerk, and their debut album has strong echoes of artists reaching from Laurie Anderson to The Knife. The thing is, Austra are very, very good at what they do. Opera-trained singer Katie Stelmanis is a commanding vocal presence, and the mixture of her chiming keyboards and the driving rhythm section of bassist Dorian Wolf and drummer Maya Postepski on tracks like "Hate Crime" or "Beat and the Pulse" is pure ear candy for electropoppers. Stelmanis self-described the album as an evocation of the "sleazier side of new wave," but as a matter of fact, these 11 tracks are far too elegantly constructed to come off as sleazy: think Japan's Tin Drum, not Soft Cell's Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.
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