Austere is an anonymous, obscurantist electronic music group that has covered a wide variety of styles in their releases: Classical Minimalism, psybient, psychedelic ambient, ambient, dark ambient, drone, glitch-ambient, and downtempo-style drum and bass music, which out of deference to Coil they spell "musick."

Austere is an EP by Sparta, released in 2002 on DreamWorks Records.

Australian band

"Austere" is the debut single by Welsh alternative rock band The Joy Formidable.

Severely simple

Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

Practicing great self-denial