Photo Credit: Sharon Alagna
Austra has released a new video for the title track from their upcoming full-length studio album, Future Politics. In addition to the new song and video the band has announced additional dates to their existing tour. The winter 2017 tour will take the band from their home country of Canada, across the United States and over the Atlantic to Europe and the United Kingdom. The band previously released the single and video for “Utopia” in October.
Like the previous video, Austra seems to be making some sort of social comment with their new video for “Future Politics.” The cut begins with aerial footage of a downtown district and sped-up clips of highway interchanges. As the song transitions into a wobbly chorus, Katie Stelmanis is shown singing into the camera between clips of pedestrian traffic crossing city thoroughfares. The video focuses on a few suit-clad subjects, who appear to be enduring some sort of Pepto-Bismal nosebleed as they flail through abandoned Brutalist settings. Midway through the song, the color scheme suddenly swaps the cold and inhuman greys of the concrete corporate world for more luminous hues, perched high above the city streets.
Judging from the first two singles from Future Politics, Austra is poised to have a big 2017.
Austra Tour Dates
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January 20 – Mod Club | Toronto, ON
January 21 – Fairmont Theatre | Montreal, QC
January 24 – The Sinclair | Boston, MA
January 26 – Warsaw | Brooklyn, NY
January 27 – Union Transfer | Philadelphia, PA
January 28 – Black Cat | Washington, DC
January 31 – Exit/In | Nashville, TN *
February 1 – Terminal West | Atlanta, GA *
February 2 – Gasa Gasa | New Orleans, LA *
February 3 – Trees | Dallas, TX *
February 4 – Mohawk | Austin, TX *
February 5 – Lowbrow Palace | El Paso, TX *
February 7 – Valley bar | Phoenix, AZ *
February 8 – Casbah | San Diego, CA *
February 9 – El Rey Theater | Los Angeles, CA *
February 11 – Mezzanine | San Francisco, CA *
February 13 – Holocene | Portland, OR *
February 14 – The Crocodile | Seattle, WA *
February 17 – Triple Rock Social Club | Minneapolis, MN *
February 18 – Thalia Hall | Chicago, IL *
February 19 – Magic Stick | Detroit, MI *
March 4 – Paradiso | Amsterdam, Netherlands
March 6 – Uebel & Gefährlich | Hamburg, Germany
March 7 – NIEBO | Warsaw, Poland
March 8 – Astra | Berlin, Germany
March 9 – Muffatwerk (Ampere) | Munich, Germany
March 10 – Conne Island | Leipzig, Germany
March 11 – Posthof | Linz, Austria
March 12 – WUK | Vienna, Austria
March 15 – Biko Club | Milan, Italy
March 16 – Les Docks | Lausanne, Switzerland
March 17 – Dampfzentrale | Bern, Switzerland
March 18 – Gloria Theater | Cologne, Germany
March 21 – Patterns | Brighton, UK
March 22 – Village Underground (Convergence) | London, UK
March 23 – Summerhall | Edinburgh, UK
March 24 – Deaf Institute | Manchester, UK
March 25 – The Button Factory | Dublin, Ireland
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