![]() ![]() The exiled angels ruffle their wings in the periphery. ![]() Milton’s Satan, disguised as a poetic rake, whispers in her ear. Her sense of urgency, indeed panic, exceeds everyday issues, evoking the biblical fall and ontological collapse into egoic nihilism. ![]() While Mutinta’s lyrics are obliquely engaging, it’s her visceral delivery, again, that translates more immediately. “Nyama” opens with Pupil Slicer’s spellbinding growls, recalling Ada Rook’s blistering contribution to I Lie Here Buried’s title song. With her new album, His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering, Mutinta completes her epic trilogy, continuing to name and explore shame, doubt, self-loathing, violence, and addiction, while musing on the intergenerational nature of these “possessions.” On “Vibanda”, she mixes hauntological textures – glitchy beats, eerie piano accents courtesy of Morgan-Paige, and dashes of acidic guitar by Michael Go – with horrorcore vocal tones, snarling: “What is stress? / what is peace? / what is death? / what is love?” Mutinta displays a unique craft however, it’s her ability to channel instinctive impulses and archetypal states – tensions inherent to the evolutionary continuum, to the very act of creation as depicted in origin myths – that renders her a talented alchemist and seminal provocateur. Rakoff called generational trauma and instapoet Hanna Abideen dubs “the scars of fate,” navigating personal and transpersonal PTSD. With 2020’s God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It and 2021’s I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses, Ashanti Mutinta, aka Backxwash, invokes what psychiatrist and researcher Vivian M. ![]()
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