Mimi Barks’ music is deliciously dirty. At times, throbbing hip-hop beats and unapologetically harsh electro evoke the hot latex and smeared bodily fluids of her background in Berlin’s underground club scene. At others, clanging industrial and serrated fury channel the cold, twisted metal and grime-beneath-the-fingernails reality of the London warehouse districts she’s since decided to call home. Constantly, there is the sense that these sounds have long been festering in the shadows of her subconscious: going in as recognisable fragments, then oozing out as something new. DEADGIRL confirms that Mimi is becoming a queen of corruption. ‘I’m my own God / And I believe in nothing but pain,’ she declares amongst the juddering basslines and head-spinning synths of the title-trac...