Single Review

Tanya Tagaq – Caribou (Pixies Cover)

10th Nov 2014

Here’s a beautiful new track to blast off those Monday blues if you’re suffering today – Tanya Tagaq is a Canadian newcomer with an ear for the epic, as evidenced on this superb cover of Pixies track ‘Caribou’ – listen below.

‘Animism’, the new studio album from Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq will be released in the UK on January 26th via Six Shooter Records – already awarded Canada’s esteemed Polaris Music Prize in her native home.

It’s an animalistic and visceral recording that merges avant-garde composition, classical expressionism, Inuit throat singing and electronica. It might sound like a car crash on paper, but the result is undeniably exhilarating – imagine Elbow playing a tribal cover of a classic Bond theme full of percussive instrumentation and wild howls and you’re halfway there.

This is like Bjork and a symphony orchestra, on magic mushrooms, lost in a forest – delirious, sublime, compelling and utterly unique.

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