With her highly anticipated new full-length album, Retribution, nearing release date, Tanya Tagaq has shared a brilliant animated video for the second single ‘Centre’, featuring Canadian rapper and hip hop artist Shad. Sometimes a track hits us so hard that we just keep listening to it again and again, and that is the case with the mind-blowing ‘Centre’, a “hip-hop song about molecular biology and menstruation”.
Tagaq teamed up with fellow Canadian artist and musician Chad VanGaalen, who animated the video. Speaking about it, she had this to say:

“I always knew I wanted to work with Chad because I’ve admired his work from afar for years. I wasn’t expecting it to turn out this well, where he was going to exactly exemplify every single facet of what we were trying to express in an otherworldly, fantastically, logical dimension. I’ve never felt my work so accurately visually embodied.”

What the video below.

Retribution is out on October 21st in North America and November 18th in Europe via Six Shooter.

Ever since we heard ‘Aorta’, the poignant and intense first single from Tanya Tagaq’s upcoming album Retribution, it has been one of our most anticipated records of 2016. As if we weren’t excited enough already, the ground-breaking Inuit artist shared another amazing single called ‘Centre’. On Retribution, Tagaq collaborated with several stellar artists, including Canadian rapper and hip hop artist Shad who shines on this track. Described as being a “hip-hop song about molecular biology and menstruation”, ‘Centre’ also features the sound of ravens recorded in Nunavut, trombones and Tagaq’s very own unique vocals. Everything about this song is great and we can’t take it off of repeat.

Retribution is out on October 21st in North America and November 18th in Europe via Six Shooter.