Austra (band)
Austra | |
---|---|
File:KatieStelmanis2009.jpg | |
Background information | |
Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Genres | Synthpop, dark wave, new wave, dream pop, indietronica |
Years active | 2009–present |
Labels | One Big Silence, Paper Bag, Domino |
Website | www |
Members | Katie Stelmanis Maya Postepski Dorian Wolf |
Austra is a Canadian electronic music band from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2009.[1] The band consists of Katie Stelmanis (vocals, keyboards), her former Galaxy bandmate Maya Postepski (drums) and former Spiral Beach bassist Dorian Wolf.[2] They played a number of early shows under the name Private Life before learning that another band was already using the name; they subsequently named the band after Stelmanis' middle name Austra, which is also the name of the goddess of light in Latvian mythology.[3] Austra used to include twin backing singers Sari and Romy Lightman of Tasseomancy. Keyboardist Ryan Wonsiak of Ze and the Boyfriends makes up the quartet.[2]
Austra's debut album Feel It Break was released on May 17, 2011 by Paper Bag Records.[4] On July 6, 2011, the album was shortlisted for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize,[5] but lost out to Arcade Fire's The Suburbs.[6] Feel It Break was included on several year-end critics' lists; notably, both the Toronto Star and New York named it the best album of 2011, with the former calling it "an outright stunner".[7][8] Stereogum named Austra a Band to Watch on March 14, 2011.[9]
Their second album Olympia was released on June 18, 2013,[10] from which the first single Home was released on March 7, 2013.[11]
Contents
Discography
Studio albums
- Feel It Break (2011)
- Olympia (2013)
EPs
- Habitat (2014)
Remix albums
- Sparkle (2011)
Singles
- "Beat and the Pulse" (2010)
- "Lose It" (2011)
- "Spellwork" (2011)
- "Home" (2013)
- "Painful Like" (2013)
- "Forgive Me" (2013)
- "Hurt Me Now" (2014)
- "Habitat" (2014)
- "American Science" (2014)
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with hCards
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Canadian electronic music groups
- Canadian new wave musical groups
- Canadian dark wave musical groups
- Domino Records artists
- Musical groups established in 2009
- Musical groups from Toronto
- Musical trios
- Paper Bag Records artists
- Synthpop groups
- 2009 establishments in Ontario
- Canadian musical group stubs