Album Review: Las Ruinas [Mixtape] by Rico Nasty

Her new album, Las Ruinas, finds her embracing a more revealing and less satirical demeanor, while collaging hard-edged sonics, declarative lyrics, and vocal tones at once seductive and aptly intimidating. "I am nonchalant to the bullshit / yes all of my thoughts are intrusive," she snarls on the opening track, bolstered by barbwire beats and clangorous synths. "Black Punk" shows her embracing street theatrics, painting a vision of dissociative loneliness and Hollywood excess, equal parts Thelma Wright, hip-hop Gatsby, and Backxwash.

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