The whole thing is barely more than 20 minutes long, and yet it’s packing more ideas than many bands manage in an entire career. And it’s fucking brilliant.
With its chilling mix of rap, goth, punk, and noise, God Has Nothing to Do With This has a huge impact for such a concise project.
I'm already incredibly biased when it comes to Backxwash so just take this with a grain of salt but....OHHHHH HELL YES.
Backxwash takes the "Witchhop" label and darker themes of her last album to create her most haunting and devious sounding album yet. From the cries of "oh god no!" In the instrumental to shouting how she fucks with black magic, it sounds like the soundtrack to a trans 70s pulp horror film. This is some of her best beats yet with electric guitars, dungeon ... read more
7.8 - Great
Yup. I missed this one too.
This album, in one word, is brutal. The instrumentals are insanely dark and grimy, which can be expected from a horrorcore album. However, BackxWash has a very distinct style, that is very interesting and unique, which helps to set her apart from other people in the field. I really dig her vintage style and sampling, and I love how the production can become so hard hitting. BackxWash herself also has a super harsh delivery, which can go super hard along ... read more
With huge echoing drum patterns and deep submerssive rounded bass throughout, this new Backxwash albums f**ks so goddamn hard.
Montreal based, Backxwash really broke out with this album. Myself, residing in Toronto, know how hard it is for domestic artists to get their voice out in this country, but with a voice and sound like this, it was surely hard to keep a lid on it. The driving fragmented sound clips on each track progress more and more song by song, giving a murky muddy broken earphone ... read more
POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE WINNERS DEEP DIVE (for @Dax_Wilder): 2020
This shit bump hard at the sacrificial ritual!
I never would've suspected that an album this blatantly threatening and uncommercial could've won such a prestigious music award, but, considering 2020 was the dumpster fire year that it was, it's not that surprising. Nice to see some industrial recognition amongst all the other winners of the Polaris
1 | God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It 1:52 | 89 |
2 | Black Magic 3:38 feat. Ada Rook | 89 |
3 | Spells 2:20 feat. Devi McCallion | 79 |
4 | Black Sheep 2:03 | 75 |
5 | Hell's Interlude 1:32 with Fatherfake | 68 |
6 | Into the Void 3:22 feat. Malldate | 85 |
7 | Adolescence 1:23 | 79 |
8 | Amen 2:24 | 78 |
9 | Heaven's Interlude 1:00 with Skin | 68 |
10 | Redemption 2:31 feat. Will Owen Bennett | 79 |
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#15 | / | The Needle Drop |
#16 | / | Paste |
#26 | / | God Is In The TV |
#34 | / | Louder |