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Chin Up Buttercup - LP - Neon Orange
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11/14/2025
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Double Sided A2 Poster. UPC: 887828052233 "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.