Live Like The Sky

Description

The celebrated Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician and author, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, returns with Live Like The Sky, the highly anticipated follow-up to her 2021 Polaris Music Prize-shortlisted album Theory Of Ice. Born from struggle and written in response to a world engulfed by wildfire smoke, fascism, colonialism, and hetero-patriarchy, the album draws surprising influence from formative alternative music (The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, Depeche Mode) combined with a vital Anishinaabe worldview to create a fugitive space of re-worlding and affirmation. Here are complex and nuanced shores, where a newly developed alternative pop musical sensibility provides a counterpoint to lyrics of resistance and a powerfully emergent creative process. Working toward a recovery of land, language, sound, and possibility, Live Like The Sky records an expansion of imagination and relationships.