First Listen: Austra - Feel It Break (album stream)

Austra's full-length debut, Feel It Break, comes out May 17. Growing up in Toronto in the 1990s, Katie Stelmanis knew she'd one day be an opera singer. She studied piano and violin and, as a child, sang with the Canadian Opera Company. Later, after years of private lessons, she was set to study opera in college. But deep down inside, Stelmanis says she knew that all she really wanted to do was make "classical music with really f—— up, distorted, crazy s— on there." It was a singular, and...

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