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Release Date
25 August 2023
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Length
13 tracks
WEEDKILLER is the debut studio album by singer-songwriter Ashnikko, released on August 25th, 2023, through Parlophone and Warner Records.
The album follows the singer's 2021 debut mixtape DEMIDEVIL. Ashnikko then headlined her first tour to support the mixtape. "Panic Attacks in Paradise" and "Maggots" were released on September 29, 2021, as a double single. It was supposed to be the lead single from her debut album, but that project was eventually scrapped.
The singer took a break from releasing music from that time to February 8, 2023, when she released "You Make Me Sick!" as the lead single. Casey announced the release date, album cover, tracklist, and world tour on March 1, 2023.
"Worms", "WEEDKILLER", "Possession of a Weapon" and "Cheerleader" were later simultaneously released as singles, and the new release date was announced by Casey, changing from June 2nd to August 25th, due to unknown reasons.
She told Apple Music's Travis Mills:
I had just seen Dune and went into the studio with my executive producer like, ‘We have to Hans Zimmer this bitch,’” they tell Apple Music. “Me and my best friend, we scrapbooked for a month, making mood boards of all of our favourite things: Japanese anime like Angel’s Egg and Princess Mononoke, the video game Elden Ring, Neil Gaiman books, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, old Björk music videos…Regardless of what I was saying lyrically, I’ve created this sonic space that keeps you in the headspace of this post-apocalyptic wasteland.”
Anchoring their surrealism in timely social message, WEEDKILLER is the sound of an artist overflowing with creative inspiration. Equal parts sinister and celebratory, the vulnerabilities of the singer born Ashton Casey mingle with the album’s fictional lead character, Aster, battling against a beast that is trying to destroy her home. The insatiable tale of the Weedkiller becomes a metaphor for the decaying state of society under deforestation, rampant consumerism, and draconian reproductive rights, but also the places we look to for reprieve; dancing, being at one with nature, the sheer joy of unbridled queer expression, and celestial sex.
“A lot of this record is about the reclamation of autonomy,” says Ashnikko. “I really feel like this album was a journey of me stepping into who I am, reclaiming what’s mine and just telling myself that I have value beyond beauty and whatever the male gaze forces me to participate in.”
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