Austra releases new single/video "Fallen Cloud"
12th November 2025
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” comes via a video directed by M. Blash:
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.
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.
TOUR DATES:
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
Austra Chin Up Buttercup
Album | 14th November 2025
“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.
Stelmanis and co-producer Kieran Adams shared a mutual love of pop divas, Eurodance and hard-to-find techno. Madonna’s 1998 album Ray of Light, produced by William Orbit, was a key influence in the later stages of album making: “Ray of Light was produced almost entirely on a Juno-106 and a Korg MS-20 which we’d been using, so the reference point was aligned,” says Stelmanis. The album sounds like a mix of hypnotic dance floor anthems and elegant melodies to soothe your broken heart.
Austra Chin Up Buttercup
Album | 14th November 2025
“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.
Stelmanis and co-producer Kieran Adams shared a mutual love of pop divas, Eurodance and hard-to-find techno. Madonna’s 1998 album Ray of Light, produced by William Orbit, was a key influence in the later stages of album making: “Ray of Light was produced almost entirely on a Juno-106 and a Korg MS-20 which we’d been using, so the reference point was aligned,” says Stelmanis. The album sounds like a mix of hypnotic dance floor anthems and elegant melodies to soothe your broken heart.
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