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- Summary: The fourth release for the Polaris Prize-winning Inuit throat-singer features a guest appearance from Shad.
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- Record Label: Six Shooter Records
- Genre(s): International
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Oct 21, 2016Retribution is immersive, cathartic, potentially even transformative.
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Oct 25, 2016The new album trades in queasy atmospherics for a more robust rhythmic attack, with Tagaq feeding off the band’s energy as much as vice versa.
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Oct 21, 2016Retribution, is her strongest outing yet, shedding practically all of Animism's tethers to pop structure and mirroring her freer, convulsing, lung-busting, throat-flexing live shows.
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Oct 21, 2016Anyone who loves Jenny Hval’s blood-soaked ruminations or Maja Ratkje’s explosive tics will be transfixed.
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Nov 14, 2016A difficult but thrilling listen.
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UncutNov 22, 2016She produces a cumulative effect that's both shattering and exhilarating. [Jan 2017, p.31]
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The WireJan 27, 2017Zubot’s production creates a sense of vastness, placing Tagaq’s voice low in the mix with strings and drums or conversely counterpointing it to instruments to create icy thick layers of noise. However, his maximalist approach fails the more poppy tracks. [Feb 2017, p.45]
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