Retribution

by Tanya Tagaq

Retribution cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 October 2016
  • Label: Six Shooter
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 47:31
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The acclaimed Inuk throat singer delivers a terrifyingly powerful, environmentally charged masterpiece explicitly addressing climate change and corporate greed. The album seamlessly blends traditional Inuit vocal games with terrifying avant-garde metal, industrial electronics, and a haunting cover of Nirvana's 'Rape Me'. It is a visceral, deeply political tour de force of indigenous expression and musical extremity.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, Leftfield, nature, political, ritualistic, avant-garde, experimental, vocal, shamanism, nonlexical-vocables, abrasive

Tracklist

  1. Ajaaja (2:55)
  2. Retribution (7:57)
  3. Nacreous (4:01)
  4. Aorta (3:37)
  5. Centre (3:51)
  6. Summoning (8:57)
  7. Cold (6:35)
  8. Sivulivinivut (1:49)
  9. Sulfur (3:00)
  10. Rape Me (4:46)

Credits

  • Tanya Tagaq - primary artist
  • Kuzy Curley - drum [inuit]
  • Inuuja Mary Kavvik Balden Gillis - voice
  • Ruben Komangapik - voice, written-by
  • Tanya Tagaq Gillis - written-by, overtone voice, written-by, words by, overtone voice, handclaps [gang], written-by
  • Jean Martin - computer [laptop], drums, written-by, drums, instruments [metal], written-by
  • Bernard Falaise - guitar, written-by
  • Dan Brooks - synthesizer, handclaps [gang]

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