New Music – Nowhere To Run

Encased in the ice and hidden beneath the snow flurries of Montreal, Backxwash takes a momentary step back, further adapting into becoming the maiden of the tundra through darkened, industrial beats and delivery.

Tracks like “PURPOSE OF PAIN” are entirely based on the eeriness of repetitive hauntings where a spoken-word vocal with no instrumental describes to an audience, a human response to physical damage. Saying, “The purpose of pain is to get our attention that something is wrong, protect us from further damage and to request care.” The voice begins to overlap as it describes, “It’s in this sense that a little bit of pain is a good thing,” becoming more and more sinister as time continues on.

Through a majority of I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES, Backxwash takes the better influences like Death Grips and Nine Inch Nails as the foundation; then puts a more broken emotional flair to them. Similar to the self-titled track ”I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES” demands to be heard and can no longer be ignored with the feature from Ada Rook.

Quickly, Backxwash capitalizes off the demonic vocals from Rook while the production becomes this industrial crawl through a metallic mud. Rook illustrates forming the basis of the hook, “Empty, alone, waiting, everything that didn’t kill me. Set me adrift between, run away, no destination.”

When Backxwash finally jumps into the track, “I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES” takes the audience into this systematic and uniform beating where much of the little hope that resides is gone. Backxwash orchestrates these harsh hellscapes to survive in and somehow thrive in while describing, “My only reason for being locked in submission or caught off religion, is born as part of the system. I see the holy scriptures, politics on the women, the prodigies and ambition.”

Much of the tracks present on I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES are fully produced by Backxwash and their production is immaculate on the track “666 IN LUXAXA” where the instrumental alone is explosive enough to blow up half of Québec.

When the 808 hits here, Backxwash stands almost like a blackened monument of these trap and Yeezus styled sampling with these African chants that quickly create a trance for the audience to fall into. When the guard is down, Backxwash delivers a quick verse, but ultimately is efficient with the time that she has.

She orchestrates like a sadistic maestro, “They came up from the darkness stole my people from me, now was the mission holy? Exorcise through weapons only.” As the chanting hits these peaks of repetition and forming an iron grasp on the audience, Backxwash continues on, “Pray to the crosses, I swear to Jesus. It’s better than all this. Segregate the people leave em with no food to eat.”

Sweeping like a plague through the countryside, Backxwash is horrifying at times and can be a real villain of the sonic nature. Instead of destroying crops and celebrating the witching hour on a town, I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES takes the hand of the audience and introduces them to real industrial fear.

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