Backxwash has added some more strings to her bow
UGLY HAG
MONTREAL RAPPER AND selfproclaimed cryptid Backxwash has released two titanic albums of industrial hip hop infused with musings on identity and religion. She repurposed white rock history on 2020’s sampleheavy debut full-length, God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It, then mastered her own beats on last year’s I Lie Here Buried With My Rings And My Dresses. On this third instalment of a trilogy, all the songtitles are in her native Nyanja with English translation, but her sampling language has expanded to include more liturgical and classical samples, such as Mozart’s Lacrimosa on Vibanda (‘Spirits’). It gives her music a much wider sound than we’ve heard before, taking her fixation on religion to a whole new dimension.