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Albums Of The Week: Backxwash | His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering

Fittingly released on Halloween, the enigmatic Montreal rapper's latest concludes her autobiographical trilogy with alarmingly intense barrages of cacophony & catharsis.

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE:His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering will conclude a trilogy of albums by Backxwash which began three years ago. The series is primarily autobiographical, with fragments of stories from her periphery. With every record, Backxwash travels farther back in time, reliving and experiencing the anger and despair that she had not granted herself at that time.

God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It (2020) began as a candid processing of her experiences in her adult life in real time, while her sequential record I Lie Here Buried With My Rings And My Dresses (2021) was a reflection on her adolescent and early adulthood years. Whereas God Has Nothing was a study in mercy, in I Llie Here Buried Backxwash finds solace in being consumed by her malevolent behaviours.

His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering (2022) delves into environmental influences during her youth and times predating her existence, concluding this therapeutic practice with a return to the here and now with a stronger sense of self than when she began this therapeutic and cathartic trilogy.”