Tanya Tagaq has been cutting to the quick of our vile world for years now: first properly breaking through with 2016’s Retribution and reentering the conversation with 2022’s Tongues (my own introduction), the Inuk vocalist and musician has never shied away from painful truths.
Her approaching album, Saputjiji (which means designated protector), promises to be perhaps her most direct assault on, per a press release, “billionaires, genocide, abuse and colonial systems” to date. Co-produced by Gonjasufi, the album is sparse, vital, and uncompromising: a proper attack on what’s ailing us all, to whatever differing degrees.
The First song from the project, “Foxtrot”, features almost like a promise doubling as a threat, righteously twisting military call signs in a form of furious protest. It also features vocals from Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham.
Check the song out below, and look out for the urgent fire of Saputjiji come March 6th, via Six Shooter.
