Since her previous album, 2022’s razor-sharp Tongues, the Inuk throat singer and experimental composer made her acting debut in True Detective: Night Country. Two years later, the Polaris Music Prize winner returns with her seventh album, Saputjiji, named after the Inuktitut word for “designated protector”. Tagaq’s work has always coursed with resistance to colonialist and capitalist forces, but rarely has she sounded as confrontational as she does here, conjuring violent and apocalyptic images over alternately dreamy and discordant soundscapes produced by frequent collaborators Gonjasufi and Jean Martin. Songs like “Fuck War” and “Foxtrot” vibrate with rage (she trades screams with Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham on the latter), while her throat singing draws beauty from the chaos on “Bohica” and “Imiq”. She draws the lyrics from her 2018 book Split Tooth, a coming-of-age story about an Inuk girl’s spiritual awakening.