Deerlady is Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego. On the duo's debut album Greatest Hits, we feel tremors and transformations in a perfectly-crafted universe of experimental shoegaze. In eight songs, we witness a precious softness that emerges from seas of rage and heartache – a throughline of hope that seems to flower over a bedrock of anti-colonial collaboration. Obomsawin of Odanak First Nation writes of death and decay with a poeticism that leaves us poised for delicate moments. With an astute approach to timbre and tone, Abrego, a Chicago-born guitarist whose parents immigrated from Mexico and Puerto Rico, builds worlds that cradle the lyrical journey. Greatest Hits is a collection of songs about intimacy under colonialism. The crux of Obomsawin’s writing is revealed in contrast – the metaphor of rigor mortis, the dewey skin of new life, refuge in deluge. Obomsawin’s voice has a heart-wrenching intimacy that she reserves for the most vulnerable moments on the record, while double-tracked vocals propel the album with revolutionary zeal. Expansive electric guitars and bass withhold and unleash with the control of two refined experimental, genre-bending instrumentalists.