Product Overview
"Presented as 'a collection of songs' over an album, Nyaaringu (meaning 'what happened' in Pitjantjatjara language) is movingly woven together with the spoken word of the singer-songwriter's late grandmother, Elizabeth Young.
"As such, Young's revelatory singles – including 2019's jazzy breakout Black Privilege and Drowning (on which she pointedly samples former Prime Minister Tony Abbott solely to refute him) – assume a compelling new context in chronicling First Nations identity and experience. Nyaaringu is thematically, and communally, powerful..."
"Poetic and profound, Nyaaringu has to be a contender for 2020's Australian Music Prize."
