Austra Release Video for New Song “Utopia,” Announce Forthcoming Album
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In the video for their new song “Utopia,” Austra give horror an uncommonly danceable soundtrack. Singer Katie Stelmanis eats bugs while she’s imprisoned in a blindingly white room, an environment which is—like Thomas More’s classic utopian ideal—anything but perfect.
But Stelmanis dreams of better things. While reflecting on the grim nature of her surroundings and the world at large, she pivots to love: “But I only wanna hold your hand,” she sings, and “can picture a place where everybody feels it too.”