Album Review: Backxwash – Only Dust Remains

Album Review: Backxwash – Only Dust Remains

Ashanti Mutinta’s first four albums as Backxwash bulge with a ferocity that tears at the listener, ripping away defenses, rationalizations and deep-seated denials. Injustice thrives, she reminds us, abuse propels the human story. The aberrant is the norm. With every utterance, Mutinta lambasts the social landscape as we know it, critiquing the way in which the world’s toxicity – inculcated via schools, family, politics, religion – is internalize…