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Taken from the new album Future Politics, out January 20, 2017 on Domino.
Pre-order now: http://smarturl.it/AustraMusicFuture Politics is available on limited edition deluxe colored vinyl with exclusive signed art print, CD, and digital download.
Pre-order on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/FuturePoliticsDL
Pre-order on Domino Mart: http://smarturl.it/FuturePoliticsDMStream Utopia on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/UtopiaStream
Director: That Go (Noel Paul & Stefan Moore)
Executive Producer: Cherie Sinclair
Producer: Cherie Sinclair
Production Company: The Field
DP: Ali Khurshid
Editor: Noel PaulProduced with the financial assistance of MuchFACT, a division of Bell Media Inc. http://www.muchfact.ca
PRESS RELEASE:
Future Politics, Austra’s third, and most ambitious album to date, calls for radical hope: “a commitment to replace the approaching dystopia,” says Katie Stelmanis, who leads Austra with the support of Maya Postepski (Princess Century, TR/ST), Dorian Wolf, and Ryan Wonsiak. “Not just hope in the future, but the idea that everyone is required to help write it, and the boundaries of what it can look like are both fascinating and endless. It’s not about ‘being political,’ it’s about reaching beyond boundaries, in every single field.”
Future Politics is a collection of urgent, but disciplined anthems for dancefloor and headphones, asks each of us to remember that apocalypse is not an inevitability, but the product of human decision-making. It aims for a world without borders, where human compassion and curiosity drive technological innovation rather than profit, where the necessity of labor is replaced with time for creativity and personal growth, and the terror and destruction wrought by colonialism and white supremacy is recognized as a dark age in human history. The album is radicalism distilled: to galvanic beats, gorgeous, kinetic melodies, and the vulnerable majesty of Stelmanis’s voice.
Inspired by her time living in two cities – Montreal and Mexico City – and propelled by economic and philosophical texts she was reading throughout the album’s creation, Stelmanis was driven to face the world’s ailments with positivity, purpose, and engagement, rather than detachment or despair. Inspiration also came from European club culture – Objekt, Peter Van Hoesen, Lena Willikens, and ’90s legends like Massive Attack; in all, artists who understand the dancefloor as a source of radical ideas and radical joy.
Change, Rebecca Solnit (author, activist, environmentalist and editor at Harper’s Magazine) writes, comes from “writers, scholars, public intellectuals, social activists, and participants in social media” – also “artists, club scenes, parties, teenagers, ghettoes,” says Stelmanis. “Every single person’s idea about the future is valid and relevant, especially the freaks and the queers and the outsiders.”
TRACKLIST
We Were Alive
Future Politics
Utopia
I’m A Monster
I Love You More Than You Love Yourself
Angel In Your Eye
Freepower
Gaia
Beyond A Mortal
Deep Thought
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