Ashanti Mutinta wants what Lady Gaga has. Not necessarily the sold-out world tours or the outlandish rhinestone-encrusted outfits, but the chameleonic discography. If Mother Monster can pull off synthpop, rock and country in the space of seven albums, Ashanti would like to think her output as Backxwash can be similarly far-reaching. (In case you were wondering, her favourite era is The Fame Monster – “That’s her magnum opus.”) The alt-rap iconoclast had reached an opportune moment to do something different. She’d recently closed the book on a trilogy of records – 2020’s God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out It, 2021’s I Lie Here Buried With My Rings And My Dresses, and 2022’s HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING – that were as personal as they...