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- Summary: The third full-length release for the Inuk singer-songwriter was the winner for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.
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- Record Label: Six Shooter Records
- Genre(s): Folk, International
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Jan 29, 2015Since this is Tanya Tagaq, no moment of the album feels excessive or perfunctory, making Animism one of the most challenging and listenable albums of the year.
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Jan 29, 2015Sometimes the vocals are uncomfortable (that goes away after a couple of listens), and sometimes, like on Caribou or Rabbit, they're crystal clear and beautiful. The instrumentation is just as amorphous.
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Jan 29, 2015The album is distinguished, therefore, not only by impressive vocal athleticism but also by an astonishing extra-human tenderness.
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Jan 29, 2015A tour de force, and contains one of the most radically bewildering symbioses of voice and field recording I’ve ever heard.
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Jan 29, 2015Indulgently arresting stuff.
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UncutJan 29, 2015Some of these pieces are more like performance art works than songs. [Feb 2015, p.83]
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