Album standouts include the hypnotic “Arnaq” and sonorous “Don’t Make Me Blue,” while its title track emerges as this bittersweet introspection on Elisapie’s own journey. But The Ballad of the Runaway Girl finds her pining for a reconnection. It was after she was adopted that she grew up in Salluit and thought only of heading south to Montreal, where she eventually arrived to start a family. It also addresses her own complicated arrival in reconnecting with Inuit culture, her adoption as a child on a tarmac of an airport, and the trials of being an Indigenous woman. This is the goal of her most recent album The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, a quieting exploration of the northern world and the roots there she feels separated from and yearns for. Visit Trixie Mattel on their website, Twitter, and Instagram to stay updated on new releases and tour announcements.Īs a member of the Inuit, Elisapie creates indie folk-stylized music that serves to coalesce her identity as an expatriate Inuk. See her at the Youtube Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. ![]() Not to mention an absolutely goose-bump-inducing cover of “I Want You To Want Me.” Mattel is the Indigenous pop phenom you didn’t know you needed until now. “Boyfriend” and “C’mon Loretta” burn with a kind of surf rock energy while “Hello Hello” hammers away with an addictive pop-punk rush. Combining elements of pop with vintage rock and woozy doo-wop melodics the 14-track collection is the necessary starting point for anyone diving into Mattel’s explosively vibrant but non-saccharine pop creations. Wielding a Barbie-inspired drag aesthetic she uses to poke fun and accentuate her own individuality, Mattel is a stunning tour de force. Trixie Mattel (who is Ojibwe) is still riding the waves of praise that have come out of the release of her latest release The Blonde & Pink Albums. Visit The Halluci Nation on their website, Twitter, and Instagram to stay updated on new releases and tour announcements. It’s also packed with incredible collaborations including with Indigenous artists like Tanya Tagaq on “Collaboration ≠ Appropriation.”Ĭatch Halluci Nation live at The Ford in Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. Relishing in the shared ecstatic of thrumming bass and the jubilant vocalizations of First Nations voices, its opening track “Remember 01” kicks off the party before diving into 48-minutes worth of The Halluci Nation’s most enraptured and momentous music to date. Mingling in First Nations music with bombastic electronica designed to get you dancing, they first exploded onto the scene with their debut album A Tribe Called Red which opens with a track that perfectly articulates the very spirit of The Halluci Nation on “Electric Pow Wow Drum.” And once you enter the buoyant soundscapes that these two create it becomes increasingly harder to leave them.īut on their latest album One More Saturday Night, the duo seeks to build human solidarity within the tradition of celebration. The duo of Tim “2oolman” Hill (Mohawk, Six Nations of the Grand River) and Ehren “Bear Witness” Thomas (Cayuga, First Nation) create a potent mix of ethnotronica. ![]() Visit Tanya Tagaq on their website, Twitter, and Instagram to stay updated on new releases and tour announcements. With every track, she eviscerates the sources of trauma inflicted upon Indigenous voices and bodies ( “Tongues,” “Colonizer”), lays the groundwork for future generations like her daughter ( “Earth Monster”), and even relishes in the rapt joy of concerts ( “Nuclear”). On her most recent album Tongues, Tagaq combines her enigmatic throat-singing with her equally powerful poetry, reading from her 2018 novel Split Tooth to flesh out its heady violin and percussion soundscapes. Björk), the album is a sonic soundtrack that warps the mind and expands the soul.īut Tagaq’s music also places into stark clarity the attempts at healing she’s made with every album - from sexual abuse to the destruction of Indigenous homelands suffered at the whims of colonizers. Apart from containing the most ethereal collaboration of all time within the track “Ancestors” (feat. Pushing the very edges of what a vocalist is capable of she’s released five albums to date starting with her seminal debut Sinaa. ![]() Inuk throat-singer and songwriter Tanya Tagaq will blow your minds.
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