• Austra, the pop project of Canadian vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis, returns today with news of her new album Chin Up Buttercup, due out November 14th via Domino. 

• Stelmanis unleashed her pain over the breakup into poetic fragments in a cathartic Google document that eventually became the source for the album’s powerful lyrics. One such example is captured vividly in the album’s first riveting single “Math Equation”: “You said I needed my own friends / So I found them / Then you fucked them.” There is an unmistakable type of sapphic chaos threaded through every song, and “Math Equation” is equal parts catchy clapback and bittersweet plea for reconnection. “Math Equation” is  out 

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