As a
fan of music, I’ve always listened to a lot of music: most anything and
everything. As a writer, this has made
me subscribe to the belief that the more music I listen to, the easier it
becomes to review music. This would be
because I’d have a larger pool of sources to pull from for comparison.
However,
with Austra my ideas have been crushed.
Immediately,
initially with my gut reaction, I want to compare Austra as a livelier, full of
more beats version of someone such as Florence Welch or maybe even Adele. The music never gets too crazy or deep into
the electronica sound, but it is just enough to leave me satisfied and it’s a
step above the two previously mentioned artists somehow as well.
I would
also draw the somewhat obvious comparisons with artists such as Ladytron (a
given when this type of synth fueled pop rock is present) and even Polly
Scattergood, but nowadays I hear her in everything that I like.
I’ve
been listening to “Olympia” for a
while now, and I believe the best reason to listen to this album is that in the
time I’ve spent listening to it, it has really grown on me. A lot of my music used to grouped together
and I didn’t know what was what—just that I liked it. And now I’ve got to the point where I can
identify this as being the “dance for free” band, which to me says a lot.
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