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Album Review: Backxwash – Only Dust Remains

John Amen·March 28, 2025

Ashanti Mutinta’s first four albums as Backxwash bulge with a ferocity that tears at the listener, ripping away...

Joshua Pickard·March 7, 2025

There are no easy answers to be found in the sonic and emotional devastation that Backxwash offers on...

Joshua Pickard·January 28, 2025

Zambian-Canadian rapper and producer Backxwash — aka Ashanti Mutinta — will release her new album, Only Dust Remains,...

Jasper WIllems·November 29, 2023

Beats Per Minute stumble deliriously across Utrecht's foremost experimental festival for hidden and familiar musical wonders.

Every year we throw the doors open to the BPM team to give them space to write or...

You could easily write a dramatic pop-rock opera about the major global events that happened in 2022. From...

John Amen·November 3, 2022

With 2020’s God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It and 2021’s I Lie...

Kyle Kohner·November 1, 2022

To cap off the Halloween season, Backxwash, Canada’s finest, most terrifying emcee, dropped one more treat in the...

Rob H·September 13, 2022

Shape-shifting Atlanta band Algiers return today with “Bite Back”, bringing with them essential Black voices in billy woods...

Jasper WIllems·February 21, 2022

Rotterdam alternative rock collective GGGOLDDD unambiguously court the darkest caverns of humanity on excellent records such as No...