Austra: ‘How psychedelic would our world be if technology wasn’t just about making someone money?’

Depressed at the state of the world, Canadian vocalist and producer Katie Stelmanis dove into Naomi Klein, Star Trek, cyborgs and Latin American dance music to find inspiration for new album Future Politics. Fittingly, it’s due on the day Donald Trump becomes US presidentIt’s a chilly December day in New York and the fifth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art is full of future visions from the past century. There are combinations of the technological and the human that range f