The Björk collaborator, hailing from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, is a traditional Inuk throat singer who mixes experimental folk with political leanings.

Continuing the album's confrontational themes, Tagaq, during her acceptance speech, said to the audience that "people should wear and eat seal as much as possible... if you imagine an indiginous culture thriving and surviving off a sustainable resource... there's lots of them and it's delicious," and then rounded it off with an emphatic "fuck PETA."

The winner was decided on the night by a range of music journalists and bloggers. The winner receives $30,000 in cash as a prize, with the runners up winning $2000 apiece.

Watch the record's trailer below, and if you've got a spare four hours, you can watch the entire Polaris 2014 ceremony below that (skip to the roughly 3 hour 46 min mak for the big reveal).

Tanya Tagaq's Animism is out now on Six Shooter.