Karshni's debut album BUCK WILD arrived in January 2026 as, in her own words, a “front to back narrative record” — eight songs meant to be heard start to finish, not shuffled. “Malapropism,” the penultimate track, co-produced with Bengaluru artist Disco Puppet, is where that narrative reaches its most direct point: a song built around the exact moment language fails morality, and a woman is left carrying the physical weight of that failure in her own body.
The song doesn't stay abstract about it for long — the video, which Karshni directed and edited herself, stages the idea literally, filming her in Shibari rope work (the Japanese bondage art) with practitioner Amiya Bhanushali, shot in Bangalore by Armaan Mishra. It's a genuinely uncomfortable watch by design: modern Shibari is as much about reclaiming bodily autonomy as it is about restraint, and the video sits in that exact tension between coercion and choice rather than resolving it for the viewer.
Musically, it fits inside the sound critics have described across BUCK WILD as a whole — grainy synths, bruising low end, and a melancholic, indie-darling vocal sitting somewhere between avant-garde hip-hop and shoegaze. What sets “Malapropism” apart from the rest of the record is how directly the sound serves the lyric: nothing here is decorative, every texture is doing thematic work.