ASHNIKKO – DEMIDEVIL CD

Mercurial singer-rapper Ashnikko today releases her magnum opus, the ‘DEMIDEVIL’ mixtape. The London-based North Carolina-born artist flaunts her multi-hyphenate genre spanning style throughout this ten track mixtape as she ricochets between themes of empowerment, vengeance to full blown side splitting humour.

Ashnikko stays true to herself on DEMIDEVIL as she excovates her emotions and experiences with friendships, relationships and even with the music industry, from the very literal ‘Toxic’ to the shot pouring and dance floor ready ‘Drunk With My Friendz’. Channeling her grungier side on ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Good While It Lasted’ we get a taste of Ashnikko’s acerbic tongue and to finish, is the ‘funny ‘cause it’s true’ ‘Clitoris! The Musical’. A hilarious take down of the hetrosexual males’ arguable inability to find the sweet spot.

A keen collaborator with other fiercely independent womxn, Ashnikko calls on ethereal pop star Grimes on emo banger ‘Cry’, Kelis on the punky ‘Deal With It’, New Yorker Princess Nokia on the sapphic soaked dreamer ‘Slumber Party’ and not to mention updating Avril Lavignes ‘SK8R BOI’ to an empowering Gen Z ‘L8R BOI’.

Ashnikko says on the mixtape “The fruit of my loins, the apple of my eye, the product of my blood, sweat, snot, and tears, my mixtape DEMIDEVIL!!!!! I worked so hard on this music I don’t know how to even deal with it being released into the wild. Might have to hibernate for a week or two while everyone listens to it.”

On the jaw dropping visuals, Ashnikko teams up with the talented Charlotte Rutherford on videos for ‘Daisy’, ‘Daisy 2.0 feat. Hatsune Miku’ and ‘Deal With It’.

Demidevil follows on from Ashnikko’s 2019 heartbreak anthem Hi, Its Me EP which introduced the world to ‘STUPID’ and led to her clocking nearly 2 million followers on TikTok. Her fans now include Billie Eilish, Olly Sykes, Miley Cyrus, as well as BBC Radio 1’s Scott Mills, Nick Grimshaw and Clara Amfo. The artist has been interviewed and supported by tastemakers DAZED, Pitchfork and Crack – to name a few and already this year has been titled a one to watch by NME, ELLE and Line of Best Fit.

The 24 year old’s furious feminst energy is palpable, turning the male gaze on itself again and again on her new mixtape. As Ash puts herself “I just like being a little demon – a little devil hellraiser”.
Daisy
Toxic
Deal With It
Slumber Party (Feat. Princess Nokia)
Drunk With My Friends
Little Boy
L8r Boi
Cry (Feat. Grimes)
Good While It Lasted
Clitoris! The Musical