Zambian Canadian rapper and producer Backxwash has announced a new album. Only Dust Remains is out March 28 on the artist’s own label, Ugly Hag, and features the previously released single “Wake Up.” A new song from the project is due out February 27. Revisit the “Wake Up” music video below; scroll down for the new album’s cover artwork.
Backxwash’s last album, 2022’s His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering, completed a trilogy that also included 2021’s I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses and 2020’s Polaris Prize–winning God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out Of It.
Read about Backxwash and Ada Rook’s “I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses” in Pitchfork’s “The 100 Best Songs of 2021.”
