AND SO I HOWLED writes a new mythos from the ashes of an unconventional upbringing. Masculine religious narratives are shed in favor of a feminine chthonic spirituality as Williams embraces her origins of poverty and identifies with her mother. Ferality, expression vs. silence, the cyclical nature of death and rebirth, motherhood and self-reclamation are thematically expressed through biblical references and the legend of La Loba, positioning the artist as prophet and shaman of her own story.