HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING

Critic Score
Based on 8 reviews
2022 Ratings: #126 / 815
User Score
2022 Ratings: #138
October 31, 2022 / Release Date
LP / Format
Ugly Hag / Label
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Critic Reviews

90
Loud and Quiet

HIS HAPPINESS… may not be the experimental overhaul many expected from an artist constantly breaking new ground to reach the underworld beneath, but it is a refinement of a style so uniquely and ferociously her own.

90
Distorted Sound

Many will have been convinced of her quality long before now, but HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING proves yet again that we are talking about an artist of the very highest pedigree.

84
Beats Per Minute

With His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering, Mutinta completes her heroic triptych.

80
The Needle Drop

His Happiness shares a lot in common with its two preceding albums, but bears some slight improvements in intensity and versatility.

80
Metal Hammer
Trap metal visionary puts the essential into existential.
80
Kerrang!
Backxwash aren't the easiest proposition. This is extreme music heavy in both sound and content. But this is also part of the strength of the album. It is unflinching in its subject matter and depth of its darkness, just as it is unafraid to be exactly what it is. And that's something quite unlike anything else you'll hear in 2022.
76
Pitchfork
On the final entry in a trilogy that began with her Polaris Prize-winning 2020 album, the Montreal rapper seeks elusive redemption in cacophonies of tense noise and gothic samples.
70
Sputnikmusic

A bad trip.

BaddieBaphomet
100

It’s the BaddieBaphomet Halloween Spooktacular!!

Yeah I know it’s not October anymore but I don’t care, I’m doing a Halloween episode because I love horror. That’s probably shocking to absolutely no one (it’s basically a requirement to be a member of The Alphabet Mafia and my name is literally a reference to a demon), but yeah, catch me on a Tuesday night and you’ll likely find me consuming some piece of horror media. There’s so much to love; ... read more

koxtil
85

I didn't expect the Regular Show reference to go as hard as it did.

Myxogastrid
92

definitely her best yet. unbelievably heavy

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ThemBineY
95

Backxwash makes art, the concept is amazing the production is amazing everything is just amazing

ThaJuiceman
81

Both a sonically and emotionally heavy album. Gotta make sure you’re in the right mental state for it because it gets dark.

Favorite Tracks:
VIBANDA
NYAMA
ZIGOLO (but only the Backxwash verse)
JUJU

WolveDoesMusiqu
94

At this point, I'm just sucking these albums off, but can't you blame me? Backxwash makes every album like it's her last and these sample choices are just as wild as the last album I heard from her. Seriously, Mozart's Requiem is sampled on here. Not since Lila's newest album have I been caught off guard by a sample choice THIS much

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