Sasami Ashworth&#8217;s fangs are bared. On the cover of her sophomore album Squeeze, she&#8217;s mostly snake, barely human. The design &#8212; created by Andrew Thomas Huang and Rin Kim &#8212; was inspired by Nure-onna, a Japanese folk creature with a similar bodily disposition. In the version of the legend that Ashworth draws upon, Nure-onna entices…

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