![]() ![]() I'm beautiful.ĭETROW: "Possession Of A Weapon" is another song I wanted to ask about. I'll take your tears and bottle them and use them as a face mist. I was living good before your locusts and your plague. Fire breathing, break shit, brain-eating amoeba. So I wanted to write a more in-your-face song, kind of purging myself of a certain man in my life (laughter).ĪSHNIKKO: (Rapping) I'm abrasive? I'm a dragon, Animorph and shapeshift. Like, I haven't been super blatant about what I'm talking about. And for me, it was this purging, this catharsis, kind of like this extraction of toxic sludge that was living in my body, these parasites and these thorns in my sides. So sonically, we took some, like, apocalyptic, very, like, industrial sounds. It was kind of like the bridge between my old music to my new music. And it is not within the fantasy concept of the album. Throwing temper tantrums every time I got a bag.ĭETROW: What does the song represent to you?ĪSHNIKKO: This song is actually the first song that I put out after like a year and a half. You don't know your way around a - call you Chad. You f*** up my life and then you say, my bad. We can hear you even screaming as you emphasize that rage.ĪSHNIKKO: (Singing) I'm mad. It's a song full of rage toward toxic, abusive men. It hits a lot, you know, at some of the overarching themes of this album. His novels, just like the way he builds out his worlds are just - is just phenomenal.ĭETROW: Can we get at some of the songs here specifically?ĭETROW: I want to start with "You Make Me Sick!" and.ĭETROW. Those, like, massively shaped my songwriting process as well. I'm rereading "The Graveyard Book." I loved "Sandman," the graphic novels. I have a Neil Gaiman-themed tattoo on my arm. He's like the only person that I think, if I saw him on the street, I would start crying, like, really just lose my mind. The main pop star of my life is Neil Gaiman and his novels. I have a book club on my Discord, and that's really fun. Right now, I'm rereading "Name Of The Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. I, like, it's played such a huge role in my life because I'm always reading a fantasy novel. It's clear that the fantasy genre has a huge influence on this album, so that's where I began our interview.ĪSHNIKKO: I love fantasy like a family member. So they end up destroying the entire forest.ĭETROW: That sets Ashnikko's main character in this album on a quest to avenge their family and the forest. And how they do that is by sucking the entire life force out of a living thing. They turn biomatter into fuel to power themselves. It tackles real-world issues but does so largely in the realm of a fantasy world Ashnikko's created.ĪSHNIKKO: So this nym utopia that is this forest populated by nym and these mother trees, and they have this symbiotic relationship.ĭETROW: That utopia becomes threatened by these machines that Ashnikko calls.ĪSHNIKKO: (Singing) Weedkiller, running with scissors. The new album is a sort of concept album. ![]() We spoke with Ashnikko just before her new album went public, and their brain was swirling.ĪSHNIKKO: I feel like my head has, like, car exhaust and bees and just all sorts of like goo in it.ĭETROW: When it's not full of goo and bees, Ashnikko's brain is pretty imaginative. And their music? It's bratty, sex positive, haunting and in your face. The alt rap punk musician Ashnikko has a big personality.ĪSHNIKKO: (Singing) World eater, big guns, big money, big cleavers.ĭETROW: When Ashnikko performs, it's in shock blue hair and elaborate sci-fi and horror inspired costumes that immediately grab your visual attention. ![]()
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