“Saputjiji, the new album from Tanya Tagaq, opens with a series of blood-curdling screams. "Fuck war," she bellows, over and over, delivering each word with the seismic force of an Arctic cryoseism. Tagaq's paroxysm of fury is brutally cathartic — a vicious rebuke to the widespread moral apathy and cowardice of our current moment, from tepid protest songs to mealy-mouthed pleas to keep politics ou”
“Vivifying scenes from her debut novel, the Inuk experimentalist and throat-singer marries fiery condemnations of oppression with tender words of protection for future generations.”
“Tongues comes straight at you. No invitation, no pleasantries, just right into the sound of the devil. Set against thick, pulsating bass, Tanya Tagaq’s contemporary take on traditional Inuk throat singing is 40-a-day gruff, doom metal guttural, and it gives the album opening a furious, feral quality that quickly takes grip. Here, Tagaq contorts fragments of poetry and spoken word into a complex c”
