University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper
University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper
Tanya Tagaq follows up her 2014 Polaris Prize winning album ‘Animism’ with ‘Retribution’, an even more musically and politically aggressive, powerful, spine tingling masterpiece.
This album is about rape: rape of women, rape of the land, rape of children, despoiling of traditional lands without consent. The last track of the album is a cover of Nirvana’s ‘Rape Me’ and is at least a hundred times more chilling than the original.
‘Retribution’ is Tagaq’s portrait of a violent world in crisis, a cohesive, whole statement, a complex, exhilarating, howling protest that links lack of respect for women’s rights to lack of respect for the planet to a lack of respect for Indigenous rights.