Backxwash breaks through with justified anguish with her third album, 'I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES'.
With her sophomore breakthrough last year, Backxwash showed herself to be a force to be reckoned with. A haunting and disturbing record that focuses Backxwash’s songwriting and her focus on visceral take on Industrial hip-hop with enough grit to rumble the earth beneath her, especially when it comes towards religion and her queer identity.
‘I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES’ ramp up that haunting intensity and bleakness, as Backxwash curdles down into much deeper and darker territory. This album still touches upon what she has worked on her sophomore last year but is now nihilistic and aggressive as she deals with religious colonization, self-harm, substance abuse, suicide ideation, and repression especially as that comes from Backxwash’s trans experience where religion and certain stripes of people will put her down. The production and performance certainly reflect that wondrously as the haunting beats blemished with industrial and metal textures sharpen Backxwash’s wails and commanding vocal delivery especially with the help of multiple producers and features such as Ada Rook, Clipping., Lauren Bousfield, Censored Dialogue, and some members of Code Orange. And it comes off as masterful, as the guitars have bite, the beats have this sharp haunting edges, the samples used are potent all around, and the melodies just flow and swerve hard as bricks! There are only a few tracks where they could’ve been a bit longer or could’ve added melodic details to differentiate themselves from an already short project.
It’s darker and more torturous, but Backxwash makes sure she envokes that emotion properly to provide some catharsis and anguish towards trans people like her that will have to deal with shit as long as they live. Backxwash keeps pushing herself to break her limits, and with I LIE HERE… She definitely has and will continue to do so.
Favorite Tracks: I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES, IN THY HOLY NAME, SONG OF SINNERS, TERROR PACKETS, NINE HELLS, BURN TO ASHES, 666 IN LUXAXA
Least Favorite Track: PURPOSE OF PAIN