Austra: "Painful Like"

Austra’s new album Olympia is out now on Domino.

Austra Returns with "Painful Like"

Olympia is out June 18 on Domino. Great new look from Austra. Hooky, danceable, energetic.

Trust: "Sulk"

We had this post flagged last week, but of course, being the lazy bloggers we are, we sat on it and now P4K named it best new track, and now we just look like those schmucky second rate guys that... ANYWAY! This is a solid song that according to Larry Fitzmaurice is "slithery" enough to use that adjective twice in one review... but we digress. "Sulk" doesn't rewrite the book on goth-synth, but is solid enough to file next to your recent Cold Cave albums, which is very good company indeed. Trust also features Maya Postepski from the excellent, and underrated Austra. Not sure how the album is, and we will not post that heinous cover art, but we're looking forward to it. Trst drops 2/28 on Arts & Crafts.

New Release: Austra 'Feel It Break' (NSFW - TBD)

[mp3] Austra: "Beat and The Pulse"

Austra is lead singer Katie Stelmanis, drummer Maya Postepski and bassist Dorian Wolf - a Toronto collective that channel the ethereal and creepy instrumental elements of The Knife, and pair them with Stelmanis' distorted but classically trained and crystalline vocals. The press release invokes "the sleazier side of New Wave" and "the seedier sides of early 1980s British New Wave (think the dirty alleys and after-hours clubs dreamed up by Japan and Soft Cell.)" All this sounds infinitely appealing to us right now. Austra's 'Feel It Break' comes out May 17 on Domino. Dig their slightly NSFW video above (lingerie and a boob).