
These past few years, popular culture has shifted the dial on vulnerability, reframing the ownership of intimate feelings as strength. “Do you ever think about it? / Do you ever-er-er-er,” she softly sings over a skeletal, slo-mo R&B sound bed. Mhysa’s solo album fantasii, and in particular the song “Bb,” seeks to externalize these inner shores, like a magician pulling an endless string of silk scarves from her esophagus. "I'm not letting go of my rage,” she told me this summer, “but I also need joy, desire - really to experience the full range of emotions because I am human and those feelings are inside of me, as they are inside of all of us.”

When she’s recording as Mhysa, however, her sights are set elsewhere.


Jane has been known to employ the full arsenal of contemporary club warfare sonics: serrated synths, sirens, agitated percussion. As one half of experimental electronic duo SCRAAATCH, Philly artist E.
