Polaris Prize-Winning Throat Singer Thinks You Should Eat More Seal
LatestTanya Tagaq is one badass woman. The Inuk singer who hails from the Cambridge Bay in Nunavut just won the $30K Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s annual award for the best full-length album (basically Canada’s Mercury Prize) for her latest release, Animism. She beat out Arcade Fire, Timber Timbre, Shad, Drake, Mac DeMarco, and others. And oh, she’s a throat singer.
Animism is the third album for Juno-nominated Tagaq, who brags Björk and A Tribe Called Red as collaborators, and it is unlike anything you’ve heard before. CBC’s Holly Gordon described it as “part throat singing, part EDM, part animal.” But there are a lot of orchestral elements in there too. If that sounds confusing, just go listen to it. It’s awesome. Here’s the trailer for her album, featuring the song “Umingmak” just to get a little taste: