Name: HiRUDiN
Brand: Austra

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Catalogue number

LP-WIG-440

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black

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Black Vinyl

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-05-08

Signed copies

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Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

887828044016

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LP-WIG-440LE

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Indie Exclusive

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887828044030

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CD-WIG-440

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887828044023

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Artist

Austra

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Domino

Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. Every attempt to turn a corner lands you back where you started. Austra aka Katie Austra Stelmanis releases her fourth album, HiRUDiN. HiRUDiN is both a bold acknowledgement of such patterns of behaviour and a testament to the power of breaking them. Alongside making changes in her personal life, HiRUDiN saw Austra taking an entirely different, free-spirited approach to making a record. Seeking out all new collaborators, she booked three days of sessions in Toronto with improv musicians she’d never met before. They included two thirds of contemporary classical improv group c_RL, the cellist and kamanche duo Kamancello, kulintang ensemble Pantayo, and a children’s choir. Accumulating a vast and vibrant mass of source material, Austra then holed up in a studio in the Spanish countryside and took a collage approach to sampling, arranging, writing and producing to reveal the songs that would form the album.

HiRUDiN additionally saw her work alongside co-producers for the first time, Rodaidh McDonald and Joseph Shabason, and she brought in David Wrench and Heba Kadry to mix and master the record respectively. While Austra’s third album, Future Politics, was concerned with the external power structures that shape society, HiRUDiN points inward. It traces a deeply personal journey towards regeneration, dealing with the fallout of toxic relationships, queer shame, and insecurity along the way. Named after the peptide released by leeches that is the most potent anticoagulant in the world, HiRUDiN is about the importance of healing the self, letting go of harmful influences, and finding the power to rebuild through exploring your innermost desires. It reaps the rewards of Austra’s leap into the unknown, in her most introspective yet inventive statement to date.

Tracklist: 1. Anywayz 2. All I Wanted 3. How Did You Know? 4. Your Family 5. Risk It 6. Interlude i 7. It's Amazing 8. Mountain Baby (feat. Cecile Believe) 9. I Am Not Waiting 10. Interlude ii 11. Messiah