Only Dust Remains backxwash album review
Music, Sounds

Backxwash, Only Dust Remains: REVIEW

by Darcy MacDonald

“Only Dust Remains lets a little extra light in, thus widening the expanse on which her brutal brilliance radiates.”

Backxwash, Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag)

Where does an avant-garde hip hop artist head after successfully breaking through with an LP trilogy of deep, dark, uneasy pieces? Sometimes it can be difficult to recognize the delineation when an artist claims to be putting a musical chapter behind them. Not so for Backxwash. Exporting the creativity, introspection and unique lyrical and compositional phrasing with which she created an uncomfortable but safe space for herself and the audience she found, Only Dust Remains lets a little extra light in, thus widening the expanse on which her brutal brilliance radiates. 9/10 Trial Track: “Undesirable”

“Undesirable” from Only Dust Remains by Backxwash

For more on Backxwash, please visit her website. This review was originally published in the April issue of Cult MTL.

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by Darcy MacDonald

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Darcy MacDonald has been with Cult MTL since day one, a decade ago. Which means today, he’s a middle-aged white guy (albeit one more interested in other people’s ideas than in his own). He was previously a columnist and reporter for Montreal Mirror, and has also created content (FKA “written”) for RBMA, Noisey, Montreal Gazette, The National Post and probably some other great places he’s forgotten about. Music, culture, community and miscellaneous questions in search of answers all come across his desk, sooner or later.