Guided by memories of uplifting joy and exceptional sorrow, the songs across Inuktitut capture the poignant rapture with which music sears itself into such moments.

Elisapie reappropriates “The Unforgiven” as a power ballad about the downtrodden, one that she uses to honor the Inuit men of her community and her own young gravitation toward the unabashed lament inherent to heavy metal bands like Metallica.