Meditation Through Gunfire, Cashavelly’s new album, is at once self-assured, audacious, and philosophically fearless, confronting the pervasive cultural view that depreciates women as they grow older. In actuality, their power achieves fruition at the moment they’re being marginalized. Cashavelly began as a ballet wunderkind, followed by a spinal injury that led her into the world of music. In 2015, she released The Kingdom Belongs to a Child, followed by 2018’s Hunger. With the release of her album and film, both titled Metamorphosis, Cashavelly ushered listeners into a dramatic, cinematic world. On Meditation Through Gunfire, Cashavelly disengages listeners and herself from the serpentine tentacles of the ubiquitous patriarchate by means of superb melodies and her wondrously expressive v...