Austra and Francesca

		Today we will explore a vibrating electronic world envisioned by Austra together with the photo manipulation works of Francesca "Oedipa Drake".

Austra

Austra is a Canadian electronic music band consisting of Katie Stelmanis (vocals, keyboard), Maya Postepski and Dorian Wolf. The song is from their Olympia album released in June 18, 2013 and is entitled "Painful like". What attracted me to this song was its bombastic feel, somehow reminding me of Michael Jackson's "Bad". The vocals are clearly resembling Bjork, but to be fair this vocal style gained some amount of popularity. In case you don't understand the lyrics I've wrote them down for you at the end of the article, after the photo gallery. The song has its charm even without paying much attention to the words.

Respect the band, buy the album. Link: http://www.austramusic.com/

Francesca "Oedipa Drake"

Opulent and extravagant in ideas, combative in rendition and sometimes contemplative, this is how I see "Oedipa" or more exactly this is what I have chosen to see in her. An artist of the digital age, she has chosen a variety of subjects with which to express herself and so doing realized some very impressive works. What particularly caught my attention are "Traveling and Dreaming" and "Waiting at the Airport" so I have situated them at the beginning and the end of her gallery.

Link: DeviantArt page / Her blog

Gallery

Traveling and Waiting

Natural Sunset

Phone Home

Burlesque in the Dungeon

The Sorceress of Fire and Ice

Waiting at the Airport

Lyrics

Hiding in the morning light
You can come here any time
Ride past her prying eyes
You can come here anytime

In the light I'm falling
Held in the eye of night
Malice keeps calling, your
Palms keep on calming

You are carried
You are carried

It was in the morning light
Bruised skin on top of mine
I held you in my underwear
Someone might see, but I don't care!

We don't have to marry
In the light you bet it all
In this town we'll bury
All the minds that clench too tight

You are carried
You are carried

We don't have to marry
In the light you bet it all
In this town we'll bury
All the minds that clench too tight

You are carried
You are carried