What will future politics look like? Is it too optimistic to even picture a future in which there can be politics? Katie Stelmanis, the opera-trained singer who spearheads the swirling and hypnotic synthpop project Austra, probably wasn't counting on the newest Austra record coming out on the same day that a terrifying tyrant would take control of the American government. Recorded music doesn't move quickly enough for Future Politics to be a response album. And anyway, Stelmanis is Canadian; she doesn't have to live under Donald Trump's rule. Still, there's something striking and oddly comforting about the way this album -- an album with back-to-back songs called "Future Politics" and "Utopia" -- is coming out on Inauguration Day. It's enough to remind you that there could be life after Trump.