Austra has dropped new single “Fallen Cloud,” the track is off the artist’s forthcoming album Chin Up Buttercup. Of the new single, Austra (aka Katie Austra Stelmanis) says: “Although I didn’t realize until long after this song was finished, Fallen Cloud is a song that takes place during the bargaining stage of grief. It begins with a desperate attempt to change an undesired romantic outcome, but after spending a bit too much time imagining different scenarios, I become enveloped by the dream-like fantasy of an alternate life. This song is meant to make you feel like you’re floating in a sweet cloud of delusion.” “Fallen Cloud” is accompanied by a video directed by M. Blash.

In other news, Austra also recently announced her 2026 tour – her first in eight years – featuring dates across North America and the EU and UK in January, February, and March.

Heartbreak is both an ordinary humiliation and uniquely devastating. Stelmanis describes Chin Up Buttercup as a narrative about “the alienating feeling of being heartbroken in a world that’s awkward and inconvenienced by your pain.” Most of us act as though romantic grief is more of an embarrassment than a universal wound. Stelmanis decided to lean into the character of the psycho creep, consumed by longing instead of aspiring toward detachment.

Austra 2026 Tour Dates

1/9: Club Saw – Ottawa, ON 
1/10: La Sala Rossa – Montreal, QC 
1/11: Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY 
1/13: Beachland Ballroom & Tavern – Cleveland, OH 
1/14: The Magic Bag – Ferndale, MI 
1/16: Sleeping Village – Chicago, IL 
1/17: 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN 
1/20: 29th Street Ballroom – Austin, TX 
1/21: Club Dada – Dallas, TX 
1/23: The Roxy Theatre – West Hollywood, CA 
1/24: The Independent – San Francisco, CA 
1/26: Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR 
1/27: Madame Lou’s – Seattle, WA 
1/29: The Fox Cabaret – Vancouver, BC 
1/31: The Great Hall – Toronto, ON 
2/6: Foro Indie Rocks – Cuauhtémoc, MX 
2/7: C3 Rooftop – Guadalajara, MX 
2/28: Sala Villanos – Madrid, ES 
3/1: La Nau – Barcelona, ES 
3/3: L’Epicerie Moderne – Fezyin (Lyon), FR 
3/4: La Maroquinerie – Paris, FR 
3/5: Le Grand Mix – Tourcoing, FR 
3/7: Botanique – Rotonde – Brussels, BE 
3/8: Mojo Club – Hamburg, DE 
3/9: Hotel Cecil – Copenhagen, DK 
3/10: Slatkyrkan – Stockholm, SE 
3/12: Kesselhaus – Berlin, DE 
3/13: Hydrozagadka – Warsaw, PL 
3/14: Subzero – Prague, CZ 
3/17: Technikum – Munich, DE 
3/18: Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld (CBE) – Köln, DE 
3/19: Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL 
3/21: Stereo – Glasgow, UK 
3/22: The White Hotel – Salford, UK 
3/23: Village Underground – London, UK 
3/25: The Workman’s Club – Dublin, IE 
3/26: Flux – Vienna, AT 

Pre-order Chin Uo Buttercup HERE