Backxwash Influenced by traditional Zambian music, industrial metal and experimental hip-hop, Ashanti Mutinta has carved out a noisy place in Canada’s rising rap scene. After a prior win in 2020, her most recent album, Only Dust Remains, was also considered for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize. Uncompromising, unpredictable, and deeply political; Backxwash is all this, and so much more. MAGELLAMontreal-based singer-songwriter MAGELLA carefully blends elements of industrial, electronic, experimental and soul, and combines it with the diasporic blues. With her powerful, warm tone, she uses the various colours of her voice to create a sonic canvas, examining themes of isolation, identity and resistance.

Lana Del RabiesOn Omnipotent Fuck — the second in a planned trilogy of releases — Lana Del Rabies plumbs the depths of spiritually esoteric thought with clanging sounds and relentless industrial drones. Her confrontational, feral audio assaults hold a dark mirror up to modern pop music.…