AUSTRA SHARES NEW SHORT FILM - CHIN UP BUTTERCUP : THE MOVIE

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN TODAY - FULL DATES LISTED BELOW

NEW ALBUM, CHIN UP BUTTERCUP, OUT NOW VIA PINK FIZZ

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“Simultaneously euphoric and melancholic” - Exclaim!

"An impressive leap forward... The sweet spot between uplifting dance music production and sobering, shadow-dappled indie sensibilities."  - Pitchfork  

“Austra has returned with some of her most captivating songs yet.” - CULT MTL

“Austra proves that healing, like pop music, works best when you don’t hold back.”
- RANGE Magazine

“A bittersweet breakup album inspired by the euphoric sounds of 90s Eurodance.” - The Grind

“An inspiring and ultra-innovative collection of tracks that blend electronic and techno sounds with Stelmanis’s powerful, striking vocals.” The Montreal Gazette

"Joyous, optimistic drunk-in-love dancefloor revelry." - Stereogum  

“Downright euphoric” - FLOOD

“It’s an ode to feeling everything all at once.” - Reverie Magazine

“Transcends the broad umbrella of pop’s subgenres” Northern Transmissions

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After releasing her first album in five years, Chin Up Buttercup—praised by Pitchfork as “a graduation, a moment where years of steadily expanding Austra’s sound has led to a monumental payoff”—Austra, the pop project of Canadian vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis, returns today with a short film, Chin Up Buttercup: The Movie. 

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Written by and starring Stelmanis, and directed by Hedia Maron, the short film expands on the emotional world of the album through new visuals, behind-the-scenes footage from the album’s photoshoots, and poetic voiceovers. Featured tracks include “Amnesia” and “Chin Up Buttercup,” as well as an acoustic live snippet of “The Hopefulness of Dawn,” offering a deeper entry point into Chin Up Buttercup.

Stelmanis comments: "I had planned to make a video of some sort using bts footage, and with the help of director/editor Hedia Maron, the idea spiraled into a wild no-budget movie making adventure."

The release of Chin Up Buttercup: The Movie coincides with Austra’s 2026 tour of North America, the EU, and UK, kicking off with three sold-out shows in Ottawa, Montreal, and Brooklyn. Tickets are available at austra.fyi, full dates can be found below.

WATCH / SHARE “FALLEN CLOUD” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “MATH EQUATION” HERE

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Stelmanis, a classically trained musician and opera devotee with four previous albums and a Canadian Screen Award under her belt, has been singing dramatic arias about tragedy for years. Her secret? She didn’t really know what that devastation felt like. She only experienced it off stage in early 2020 when her long-term partner dropped a bombshell. “I was completely blindsided … the person I loved woke up one day, told me she wasn’t happy, and I basically never saw her again,” Stelmanis says. She confesses to feeling very at odds with the world, like nothing made sense. The album’s name is a reference to the societal pressure to just paste on a smile and keep going. Stelmanis and co-producer Kieran Adams took inspiration from the Eurodance sound of Madonna’s landmark 1998 album Ray of Light, produced by William Orbit, and emerged with a mix of hypnotic dance floor anthems and elegant melodies to soothe your broken heart. 

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AUSTRA 2026 TOUR 
1/9: Club Saw - Ottawa, ON *SOLD OUT*
1/10: La Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC  *SOLD OUT*
1/11: Baby’s All Right - Brooklyn, NY *SOLD OUT*
1/12: Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY
1/13: Beachland Ballroom & Tavern - Cleveland, OH 
1/14: The Magic Bag - Ferndale, MI 
1/16: Sleeping Village - Chicago, IL 
1/17: 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN 
1/20: 29th Street Ballroom - Austin, TX 
1/21: Club Dada - Dallas, TX 
1/23: The Roxy Theatre - West Hollywood, CA 
1/24: The Independent - San Francisco, CA 
1/26: Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR 
1/27: Madame Lou’s - Seattle, WA 
1/29: The Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC 
1/31: The Great Hall - Toronto, ON  *SOLD OUT*
2/6: Foro Indie Rocks - Cuauhtémoc, MX 
2/7: C3 Rooftop - Guadalajara, MX 
2/28: Sala Villanos - Madrid, ES 
3/1: La Nau - Barcelona, ES 
3/3: L’Epicerie Moderne - Fezyin (Lyon), FR 
3/4: La Maroquinerie - Paris, FR 
3/5: Le Grand Mix - Tourcoing, FR 
3/7: Botanique - Rotonde - Brussels, BE 
3/8: Mojo Club - Hamburg, DE 
3/9: Hotel Cecil - Copenhagen, DK 
3/10: Slatkyrkan - Stockholm, SE 
3/12: Kesselhaus - Berlin, DE 
3/13: Hydrozagadka - Warsaw, PL 
3/14: Subzero - Prague, CZ 
3/17: Technikum - Munich, DE 
3/18: Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld (CBE) - Köln, DE 
3/19: Melkweg - Amsterdam, NL 
3/21: Stereo - Glasgow, UK 
3/22: The White Hotel - Salford, UK 
3/23: Village Underground - London, UK 
3/25: The Workman’s Club – Dublin, IE 
3/26: Flux – Vienna, AT 

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AUSTRA SHARES “FALLEN CLOUD” FROM NEW LP, OUT THIS WEEK

AUSTRA’S CHIN UP BUTTERCUP OUT NOVEMBER 14 VIA PINK FIZZ (CANADA) AND DOMINO (WORLDWIDE)

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2026 TOUR DATES BEGIN IN CANADA THIS JANUARY - FULL DATES BELOW

“Katie Stelmanis has a voice like a beacon.” - Pitchfork

“Austra’s music [is] the sort of thing that can fill up a room and encircle you.” - Stereogum

“Dynamic pop songs that show just how pleasurable unconventional song choices can be.” - Nylon

Photo Credit: Lamia Karic // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Today, Austra unveils “Fallen Cloud”, the final preview from the Canadian vocalist and composer’s forthcoming album Chin Up Buttercup—her fifth full-length and first in five years. The track drifts between euphoria and melancholy, a sweeping synth-pop reverie that channels the shimmering pulse of early-2000s new-age dance music.

Of the new single, Austra (aka Katie Austra Stelmanis) says: “Although I didn’t realize until long after this song was finished, ‘Fallen Cloud’ is a song that takes place during the bargaining stage of grief. It begins with a desperate attempt to change an undesired romantic outcome, but after spending a bit too much time imagining different scenarios, I become enveloped by the dream-like fantasy of an alternate life. This song is meant to make you feel like you’re floating in a sweet cloud of delusion.” “Fallen Cloud” arrives with a video directed by M. Blash. 

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Austra announced Chin Up Buttercup in August with lead single “Math Equation,” which Stereogum named their #1 Best Song of the Week, writing, “The song is sonically bright but also full of empty space; it captures the sensation of being in an excited crowd and feeling completely alone. If Chin Up Buttercup is all similar heartbreak-inspired party anthems, count me in.” The follow-up single, the dreamy and trance-like “Siren Song,” drew further acclaim, described by Stereogum as “sublime,” with additional praise from The Needle Drop, BrooklynVegan, and MXDWN.

Chin Up Buttercup is due this Friday via Pink Fizz (Canada) and Domino (Rest of World). The album is available to pre-order on limited edition Neon Orange vinyl, standard Black vinyl, CD and digitally. LP formats come with a A2 double-sided poster; the CD comes with a 6-panel poster. Pre-order here:  DomMart | Digital

Austra also recently announced her 2026 tour – her first in eight years – featuring dates across North America and the EU and UK in January, February, and March. Tickets are available now at austra.fyi. Full tour dates can be found below.

WATCH / SHARE “MATH EQUATION” HERE
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 MORE ABOUT AUSTRA & CHIN UP BUTTERCUP
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.” Louise Erdrich  

“I’m so chaotic in love,” sings Katie Austra Stelmanis on “Amnesia,” the cinematic opening track of Chin Up Buttercup, the fifth album by her alter ego and longtime pop project Austra. You know Austra’s astonishing voice – singular and operatic, it betrays a fearlessness and sophistication. She’s the woman you’d be afraid to approach in a bar. Her voice draws you like a siren to the dance floor as the beats build toward the hypnotic chorus of “my life is not the same without you in my arms.” Listen closely and you’ll hear a vulnerability that sets this album apart from her earlier work. This is a grief album you can dance to. 

WATCH / SHARE “SIREN SONG” HERE
BUY / STREAM “SIREN SONG” HERE

 Mournful lyrics about the opprobrium of heartache join euphoric, live-for-today euro-dance inspired synth melodies, a juxtaposition that says what we all know: contrasting emotions like anxiety and excitement, pleasure and pain, and jealousy and attraction can feel indistinguishable in your body. Who Stelmanis might be off stage – a composer, a studious introvert, suffering from an obsession with a romantic betrayal – is set free by embodying the protagonist of this invigorating album-length journey. She’s a force, demonic, an emotionally-driven chaos monster, and she’s going to lead you to surrender. 

Heartbreak is both an ordinary humiliation and uniquely devastating. Stelmanis describes Chin Up Buttercup as a narrative about “the alienating feeling of being heartbroken in a world that’s awkward and inconvenienced by your pain.” Most of us act as though romantic grief is more of an embarrassment than a universal wound. Stelmanis decided to lean into the character of the psycho creep, consumed by longing instead of aspiring toward detachment. The result of embracing this dual personality is an album that coolly moves through the madness and eschews traditional healing arcs that bend toward self-improvement. By the final track we love this anti-hero; she is shining a light on our universal shame, making us laugh at our own abject desperation. 

PRE-SAVE CHIN UP BUTTERCUP HERE
PRE-ORDER CHIN UP BUTTERCUP HERE

AUSTRA 2026 TOUR 
1/9: Club Saw - Ottawa, ON 
1/10: La Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC 
1/11: Baby’s All Right - Brooklyn, NY 
1/13: Beachland Ballroom & Tavern - Cleveland, OH 
1/14: The Magic Bag - Ferndale, MI 
1/16: Sleeping Village - Chicago, IL 
1/17: 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN 
1/20: 29th Street Ballroom - Austin, TX 
1/21: Club Dada - Dallas, TX 
1/23: The Roxy Theatre - West Hollywood, CA 
1/24: The Independent - San Francisco, CA 
1/26: Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR 
1/27: Madame Lou’s - Seattle, WA 
1/29: The Fox Cabaret - Vancouver, BC 
1/31: The Great Hall - Toronto, ON 
2/6: Foro Indie Rocks - Cuauhtémoc, MX 
2/7: C3 Rooftop - Guadalajara, MX 
2/28: Sala Villanos - Madrid, ES 
3/1: La Nau - Barcelona, ES 
3/3: L’Epicerie Moderne - Fezyin (Lyon), FR 
3/4: La Maroquinerie - Paris, FR 
3/5: Le Grand Mix - Tourcoing, FR 
3/7: Botanique - Rotonde - Brussels, BE 
3/8: Mojo Club - Hamburg, DE 
3/9: Hotel Cecil - Copenhagen, DK 
3/10: Slatkyrkan - Stockholm, SE 
3/12: Kesselhaus - Berlin, DE 
3/13: Hydrozagadka - Warsaw, PL 
3/14: Subzero - Prague, CZ 
3/17: Technikum - Munich, DE 
3/18: Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld (CBE) - Köln, DE 
3/19: Melkweg - Amsterdam, NL 
3/21: Stereo - Glasgow, UK 
3/22: The White Hotel - Salford, UK 
3/23: Village Underground - London, UK 
3/25: The Workman’s Club – Dublin, IE 
3/26: Flux – Vienna, AT 

CHIN UP BUTTERCUP ARTWORK // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

TRACKLIST
01 Amnesia
02 Math Equation
03 Siren Song
04 Chin Up Buttercup
05 Fallen Cloud
06 Blindsided
07 Think Twice
08 Look Me in the Eye
09 The Hopefulness of Dawn
10 Good Riddance

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AUSTRA SHARES NEW VIDEO, ANNOUNCES 2026 TOUR DATES

AUSTRA’S CHIN UP BUTTERCUP OUT NOVEMBER 14 VIA PINK FIZZ (CANADA) AND DOMINO (WORLDWIDE)

WATCH / SHARE “SIREN SONG” HERE
BUY / STREAM “SIREN SONG” HERE

PRE-SAVE CHIN UP BUTTERCUP HERE
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“Katie Stelmanis has a voice like a beacon.” - Pitchfork

“Austra’s music [is] the sort of thing that can fill up a room and encircle you.” - Stereogum

“Dynamic pop songs that show just how pleasurable unconventional song choices can be.” - Nylon

Photo Credit: Lamia Karic // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Austra, the pop project of vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis, will release her fifth album Chin Up Buttercup on November 14 via Pink Fizz (Canada) and Domino (Worldwide), and today she shares her majestic new single “Siren Song”. Co-written with Montreal songwriter, musician and DJ Patrick Holland, “Siren Song” is a dreamy trance-like plea for connection. 

“‘Siren Song’ exists somewhere at the intersection of ABBA, Ray of Light, The X-Files and Greek mythology,” says Stelmanis. “ABBA inspired the early songwriting with Patrick. The Siren introduced herself to me while I was improvising the demo recordings and I quickly realized that Orpheus would be our common nemesis. Following a recent X-Files binge, I was heavily inspired by Mulder’s desperate search for his sister. Ray of Light came in at the end as my co-producer Kieran Adams and I were establishing the sonic realm which would become the backdrop for our Siren to lament the loss of her lover to Orpheus and his pesky Lyre.” “Siren Song” comes via a video directed by Vanessa Magic.

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Today, Austra also announces her 2026 tour, featuring dates across North America and the EU and UK in January, February, and March. Tickets will be on artist pre-sale this Wednesday, October 8; promoter pre-sale this Thursday, October 9; and general pre-sale this Friday, October 10, all at 10am local time. Full tour dates listed below, tickets will be available at austra.fyi. 

Chin Up Buttercup features the previously released single “Math Equation,” which Stereogum named their #1 Best Song of the Week, writing, “The song is sonically bright but also full of empty space; it captures the sensation of being in an excited crowd and feeling completely alone. If Chin Up Buttercup is all similar heartbreak-inspired party anthems, count me in.”  Chin Up Buttercup is available to pre-order on limited edition Neon Orange vinyl, standard Black vinyl, CD and digitally. LP formats come with a A2 double-sided poster; the CD comes with a 6-panel poster. Pre-order HERE 

WATCH / SHARE “MATH EQUATION” HERE
BUY / STREAM “MATH EQUATION” HERE

MORE ABOUT CHIN UP BUTTERCUP
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.” - Louise Erdrich 

“I’m so chaotic in love,” sings Katie Austra Stelmanis on “Amnesia,” the cinematic opening track of Chin Up Buttercup, the fifth album by her alter ego and longtime pop project Austra. You know Austra’s astonishing voice – singular and operatic, it betrays a fearlessness and sophistication. She’s the woman you’d be afraid to approach in a bar. Her voice draws you like a siren to the dance floor as the beats build toward the hypnotic chorus of “my life is not the same without you in my arms.” Listen closely and you’ll hear a vulnerability that sets this album apart from her earlier work. This is a grief album you can dance to.

Mournful lyrics about the opprobrium of heartache join euphoric, live-for-today euro-dance inspired synth melodies, a juxtaposition that says what we all know: contrasting emotions like anxiety and excitement, pleasure and pain, and jealousy and attraction can feel indistinguishable in your body. Who Stelmanis might be off stage – a composer, a studious introvert, suffering from an obsession with a romantic betrayal – is set free by embodying the protagonist of this invigorating album-length journey. She’s a force, demonic, an emotionally-driven chaos monster, and she’s going to lead you to surrender.

Heartbreak is both an ordinary humiliation and uniquely devastating. Stelmanis describes Chin Up Buttercup as a narrative about “the alienating feeling of being heartbroken in a world that’s awkward and inconvenienced by your pain.” Most of us act as though romantic grief is more of an embarrassment than a universal wound. Stelmanis decided to lean into the character of the psycho creep, consumed by longing instead of aspiring toward detachment. The result of embracing this dual personality is an album that coolly moves through the madness and eschews traditional healing arcs that bend toward self-improvement. By the final track we love this anti-hero; she is shining a light on our universal shame, making us laugh at our own abject desperation.

AUSTRA 2026 TOUR
1/9: Club Saw - Ottawa, ON
1/10: La Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC
1/11: Baby’s All Right - Brooklyn, NY
1/13: Beachland Ballroom & Tavern - Cleveland, OH
1/14: The Magic Bag - Ferndale, MI
1/16: Sleeping Village - Chicago, IL
1/17: 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN
1/20: 29th Street Ballroom - Austin, TX
1/21: Club Dada - Dallas, TX
1/23: The Roxy Theatre - West Hollywood, CA
1/24: The Independent - San Francisco, CA
1/26: Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
1/27: Madame Lou’s - Seattle, WA
1/29: The Fox Cabaret - Vancouver, BC
1/31: The Great Hall - Toronto, ON
2/6: Foro Indie Rocks - Cuauhtémoc, MX
2/7: C3 Rooftop - Guadalajara, MX
2/28: Sala Villanos - Madrid, ES
3/1: La Nau - Barcelona, ES
3/3: L’Epicerie Moderne - Fezyin (Lyon), FR
3/4: La Maroquinerie - Paris, FR
3/5: Le Grand Mix - Tourcoing, FR
3/7: Botanique - Rotonde - Brussels, BE
3/8: Mojo Club - Hamburg, DE
3/9: Hotel Cecil - Copenhagen, DK
3/10: Slatkyrkan - Stockholm, SE
3/12: Kesselhaus - Berlin, DE
3/13: Hydrozagadka - Warsaw, PL
3/14: Subzero - Prague, CZ
3/17: Technikum - Munich, DE
3/18: Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld (CBE) - Köln, DE
3/19: Melkweg - Amsterdam, NL
3/21: Stereo - Glasgow, UK
3/22: The White Hotel - Salford, UK
3/23: Village Underground - London, UK
3/25: The Workman’s Club – Dublin, IE
3/26: Flux – Vienna, AT

PRE-SAVE CHIN UP BUTTERCUP HERE
PRE-ORDER CHIN UP BUTTERCUP HERE

CHIN UP BUTTERCUP ARTWORK // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

TRACKLIST
01 Amnesia
02 Math Equation
03 Siren Song
04 Chin Up Buttercup
05 Fallen Cloud
06 Blindsided
07 Think Twice
08 Look Me in the Eye
09 The Hopefulness of Dawn
10 Good Riddance

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