Jeremy Dutcher – Motewolonuwok

Five years after winning the Polaris Music Prize with his ground-breaking debut, Jeremy Dutcher has returned with a moving and radiant exploration of contemporary Indigeneity and his place within it. With songs performed in his people’s Wolasotqey language but also, for the first time, in English, Motewolonuwok demonstrates a range and depth beyond anything the musician has made before, encompassing traditional song, starlit ballads and staggering orchestrations. “When we engage with our stories, and our sad stories—what’s the golden thread that’s in there?” he asks. “I wanted to sing out the pain, and point us to the beauty.”