Retribution

"Throat-singer Tanya Tagaq could be Canada's unlikeliest crossover act. At a time when Canada is reckoning with the historic mistreatment of its indigenous population, her new LP demands retribution ... Tagaq recorded Retribution with the core duo of violinist Jesse Zubot and percussionist Jean Martin, whose free-form sound-scraping blurs the lines between folk, classical, klezmer, post-rock, musique concrete, and slasher-flick soundtrack".

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"Tanya Tagaq is one of those artists of whom it is said "You have to go see her live," as if the recorded artefact simply won't convey what goes on at her show ... On her fourth album, Retribution (...) Tagaq achieves an experience as potent as, and analogous to, her live show: Retribution is immersive, cathartic, potentially even transformative".

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"Tagaq has an astonishing technique and vocal range, and her wordless message - delivered in a range from guttural moans to shrieking falsetto - has a global resonance".