FKA twigs

holy shit

so is this Arca, or?

She said in the little interviewlet with Ellie Goulding yesterday that she's actually been doing some production herself. Whether this is one of them or not, I don't know yet.

Goddamn

Amazing song, amazing video

Who is bankrolling this?

XL presumably

so is this Arca, or?

She said in the little interviewlet with Ellie Goulding yesterday that she's actually been doing some production herself. Whether this is one of them or not, I don't know yet.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this one was a Clams Casino production.

if so this is the first time i've enjoyed a clams thing in years

and the first time i've enjoyed a fka twigs thing anyway

v v v good

This is definitely a bold clam xp

I think this one was a Clams Casino production.

nah he said on twitter that he didn't produce it.

http://twitter.com/clammyclams/status/481446543598579712

Just twigged (har har) that the vid is probably a response/take on Kanye's Power vid?

What are earlier examples?

http://twitter.com/clammyclams/status/481446543598579712

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, June 25, 2014 7:43 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol, that's some shonky journalism by Pitchfork and a host of others then.

Annnd new interview

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/06/meet-fka-twigs-musics-new-fashion-darling.html

"Two Weeks" has completely taken over my brain

basically I can't go more than 45 minutes without humming either this song or "Dark Horse"

^^ minus the Dark Horse part

"Two Weeks" has really changed the way I think about her - I hope the rest of the LP avoids the pallid and watery early songs (which I tried really hard to love, but just couldn't latch onto for whatever reason) and more full-bodied like the newest single. She seems like a pretty cool person in any case: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9460-fka-twigs/

I still think the songs on the eps are gorgeous and really can't comprehend how they're unlikeable—particularly "Water Me," which seems to be the one most scorned—but I'm looking forward to whatever her next move is.

leaked. if you need me, i'll be over here listening to this one on a loop for the next couple days.

this album is a real endorphin releaser.

i love "two weeks" and i think i also love "pendulum" but at this point i'm not convinced by the rest

I'm kind of floored by this tbh

The album is a big blur, but it's great.

This is a much more convincing artistic statement for me than the tracks I heard from the EPs without being substantially different; I don't know what is happening here that wasn't on the EPs but more of that, plz

For damn sure. It's a treat and works so damn well on a summer evening.

I've basically gone from thinking she was wildly overrated to being like...why are there not 1,000 new answers in this thread right now?

My favourite album from this year so far, I think.

am I the only 1 who reads this as "fucka twigs" in my mind?

Whoah on my first listen and this is super great. Portishead springs to mind + destiny's child or something I dunno but I like this a lot. I'm sure I heard the last EP but it didn't make much impression on me.

i guess i'm waiting to download the official version but based on the two singles this will be one of my fav albums of the year for sure

live at maida vale - http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ed2nc8#p0249zb1

apologies for tedious interview that precedes it

set starts at 4:49

ugh zane lowe is the worst

am I the only 1 who reads this as "fucka twigs" in my mind?

― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, August 6, 2014 5:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no

pendulum is quite good but i can't shake the feeling that i'm missing something in my core that allows me to get excited about this artist's work. as with kelela and SZA, i am impressed and enjoy the songs but i couldn't remember anything enough to hum them to save my life.

^^^ exactly how i felt about twigs before this album.

Kelela and twigs I think have far more focussed and refined aesthetics than SZA who I feel like is figuring herself out still - the album was sort of all over the place with a couple of gems. ("Julia", mostly).

I listened with fairly low expectations and this is really, really good, hairs-on-back-of-neck good in places.

All the "it's really about the producer" stuff upthread is revealed as cobblers by this point. With all the names knocking around - Arca, Dev Hynes, Paul Epworth, maybe Clams Casino - it's remarkably consistent in sound and aesthetic leaving you in little doubt that the person who's actually driving things is her. As opposed to other hyped new artists where the debut sounds like a bet-hedging grab-bag of different approaches.

And so many of these tracks SOUND fantastic, like pop songs stretched out until their component parts are miles apart, and then making maximum use of that space. I'm trying to work out why I find this all so affecting, she doesn't have a particularly great voice or what you'd call presence (other than in a kind of airy seductive ghost way) but her voice ties everything together perfectly, you can't imagine this working without her.

Terrible fucking name by the way.

I don't like the name either but I liked her explanation when I interviewed her: "I like the masculine letters. It sounds like a boy’s computer game. A sergeant has to save people. FKA twigs on a mission! FKA twigs do you read me? Copy that!" Then she started moving her arms like a game character running. She's quite odd.

The record is wonderful. At first I thought it was all just a beautiful blur but then I started listening to tracks in isolation and the different strengths and idiosyncracies come out. Two Weeks is one of my songs of the year.

Yeah it all seems kind of samey but then you pay attention and start to realise how much each track changes as it goes along, all these evolving shapes and sounds in the background.

Hate the first 15 seconds of Lights On though. Maybe they had the Pitchfork audience in mind and decided to include a rythmically inept guitar figure right at the beginning just to reassure them.

i love all kinds of sounds i could never hum to save my life

With all the names knocking around - Arca, Dev Hynes, Paul Epworth, maybe Clams Casino - it's remarkably consistent in sound and aesthetic leaving you in little doubt that the person who's actually driving things is her.

sounds like she produced a lot of it herself as well?

Yeah I think so.

i love all kinds of sounds i could never hum to save my life
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080)

loving this. earnestly looking forward to lex explaining why we're listening to the wrong thing

I'm actually having quite a lot of trouble hearing this as an R&B album in any way, obviously there is loads of R&B influence in there but a lot of the time the melodies just don't feel like R&B melodies, there's this odd kind of English folkishness to some of the vocal lines. It's a weird blend but she makes it work.

I don't think it really has any pretensions of being "an R&B album", so to speak - it's much closer to Homogenic than Aaliyah.

Yeah, I'd be wary of falling into the Santigold trap here

That one and 24hr Dog are the highlights for me besides the singles

Idk how to feel about this one. When it’s good it’s amazing but half of it is not at that level.

That North West feature is so fucking stupid I can’t even be mad at it

That one's going to the "Holy Terrain" (instant skip if I'm paying attention). I really liked everything else though. Even the ones that started out kind of dull ended up doing something interesting by the end.

most of this is great but "childlike things" is so bizarrely terrible

I like the ending bit of room of fools.

I think I've landed on "Keep it, hold it" as my fave. Hard to say this early, but I think I might prefer this one to the other LPs as a straight through record, even if it doesn't have a "Two Weeks" or "Sad Day".

I hope that Balki and Larry work it out on a remix of “Perfect Strangers.” (Sorry.)

Only just hit me watching the video how much 'Perfect Stranger' is a riff on Madonna's Beautiful Stranger. But I see that others above have already pointed out the Ray Of Light comparisons.

maybe she didn't postpone her tour because of visa problems but because she was so embarrassed by the video she just put out

Thought this bump would be about the hilarious Discord message of hers that's been circling about lol

Oh that was funny too, but unlike the video, I think the that post came off the way she intended

She still shouldn’t be on a fan discord tho

both their albums kinda washed over me, but i quite like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKdigb7GasY

Love both their new albums and this song. Maybe there's more to come? Fingers crossed

this is from the deluxe version of the oklou album but there's a second twigs album out next month too

New reimagining of EUSEXUA is worth a listen -- I like the PinkPantheress feature and the beat/switch-up on "Sushi" when she name drops "Gasolina" -- but don't understand the changes to the original album, especially scrapping "Perfect Stranger" and comedown closer "Wanderlust," which were two of my favorites.

"hard" is her best song in years

The aoty list aggregate doesn’t have EUSEXUA in the top 50. Only 5 lists so far, but come on. It’s not perfect but it’s way more brilliant than half of the albums in there.

Just looked and 1, 2, 3 are Pulp, Stereolab and Suede, so I don't know if it's indicative of anything at this point.

2025 or 1995

WHATYEARISIT.png

It's indicative of crusty UK-centric hivemind. EUSEXUA will move up the lists as more American lists get published. It ought to.