FKA twigs

xpost mtv played that video so much in 1998. EVEN WHEN I DREAM OF YOUUUUUUUUUUU

The headphones pro tip helped me a lot with this album.

i wish there was more layered choral stuff on this album!

Me too. That's one of my favourite things TBH. Someone please commission FKA Twigs to write an Opera, or an Oratio or something along those lines.

I also wish that

I love when she goes all demented-Enya on "Closer"

god yeah enya! that's totally a good comparison to some of the stuff they do w the layer vox

*enya awakes from unholy slumber*

This thing she did with dance group Wet Wipez is awesome - "Preface" remixed by Aphex and most definitely, "arty":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A43M0GJ0tA

I could watch her dance all day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nGFNayjYrM

not actually remixed by Aphex btw, just a bad (and badly-phrased) comparison, sry about that

Holy shit, that Wet Wipez thing is probably the single most Goth thing I have ever watched in my life. So amazing. Waaaaaaahhhhhh. <3

i am listening to this album as a kind of dystopic inversion of grimes' utopian "visions".

I am listening to this album as if I only ever heard half of Grimes' album once

i am not listening to this album anymore

I am still listening to this album.

I listened to this album! Twice!

sometimes i am listening to this album
other times i'm not
i'm an enigma

areyoulisteningtofkatwigs.com

I keep listening to this album, but Two Weeks remains the always-coming-back-to-you-boo song.

I think this album is way boring

the "when I trust you we can do it with the lights on" is quoted in a lot of reviews, can't help but wonder if this is a sexually progressive or conservative statement, also, if you have sex in the morning does that count as sex with the lights on?

after listening to this a few times, i do like it a lot, though it does (willfully i imagine) mostly ignore songwriting dynamics as a few people have said, but i dont mind that. she does sound very much like a slightly mannered art school-ciara like how jessy lanza sounded like an art-aaliyah, so i could do with less use of that sort of ecstatic flutter she does so frequently (oddly, she also makes me think of maxwell - not saying she has the voice, but i keep getting flashbacks to lifetime, like shes memorised certain phrasing that she has now built into her arsenal of vocal effects/tipping points). does make me think that while i enjoy how she challenges journalists' perceptions of her based on race, the R&B-ness of the album (even as it quite obviously isnt straight R&B) can't really be denied. also, closer is an incredible song (and maybe the only/most 4ad sounding thing on here). makes me think a bit of salem and ooOOO (however you write it).

yeah, closer is my favorite song on the album too but i am a witch house apologist.

I don't really have a favorite at this point; sometimes I'm not in the mood to hear "Hours" or "Pendulum" but I still love them.

Thinking Pendulum is my fav

the rap bit in "Hours" is my favourite thing on this

okay the lyric that is currently haunting me is "Pull out the incisor/Give me two weeks/You won't recognize her"

watching "Marathon Man" with the narrator of this song must be decidedly odd

(was gonna say "The Dentist" but that felt a little too pat)

Favorite new production tics I only noticed after 30+ listens:

The pulsating underwater drums on the leadup to the bridge

The multitracked vocal adlibs after the bridge

(In re: Two Weeks, obv, which I think is the song of the year for me so far)

Her music is fairly interesting, but does she have the worst name ever? She probably does.

Like.. How do you even parse a name like that? It's just trying to be annoying afaict.

I assume the FKA stands for 'formerly known as' given her legal trouble - I'm in the 'it's so bad it's good' camp

I mean thank god she didn't name herself "Social Media"

But FKA... Ok, can maybe go with this if something good is coming.. Twigs. TWIGS? TWIGS PLURAL? AS IN MORE THAN ONE TWIG?

I would probably really like her if not for this.

If my dad said 'who are you listening to at the moment?' and I said 'FKA Twigs' he would have a fucking field day.

Twigs was a great name by itself fuiud

Yes, would be fine by itself. With FKA it magically becomes very ugly IMO. Dunno, I should probably get over it.

You guys are doing it wrong, it's "fuckah twigs".

Soon to do a duet with RAH DIGGA!

chap what's yr dad's deal

but does she have the worst name ever? She probably does.

She doesn't call herself Pissed Jeans or Diarrhea Planet or Fartbarf, so it's not the worst by any means.

It's a bad name (Twigs is good though) but not the worst name ever.

http://nosnobsallowed.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/hotympackshot.jpg

Rah Digga rules

funny i don't entirely love the song "pendulum" but there is this one vocal harmony that she does i think twice in the song that just sounds like the best thing ever.

Yeah, her name somehow really bothers me as well. Feel really superficial getting hung up on it, but it's the only thing stopping me from loving this record.

tend to think of it as a shortened version of wka fka twigs

anyway it's a good name, alluringly awkward is appropriate

i've lost interest in this alb tho. probably all u ppl's fault tbf

'numbers' has stuck with me, probably because it is the purest most obv lol 90s throwback on there, no fannying about

Heh, that's the one I skip. It's the one that really veers into 'IDM dudes thinking they're doing Aaliyah' territory for me.

yes!! be real with yourselves!!

Or to put it the other way, I like this album because there's so much warmth in the sounds, which I don't get when I listen to, say, Jessy Lanza or Kelela or any other time some jobbing vocalist phones up Kode9 or Bok Bok for their offcuts.