FKA twigs

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.

anyone complaining about the name should really be forced by martial law to submit a preferred alternative

i would imagine the process of typing out 'battle angel alita' or whatever would prove to be v rehabilitative

that reminds me actually where is the gareth metford review

"Jobbing vocalists" "offcuts" "IDM dudes"

I mean, fuck this attitude forever.

It doesn't matter how much the artists talk about their involvement with the songwriting process or production process, it's always just PRODUCER DUDES DOIN' THE REAL WORK HERE and the women stand around "begging for offcuts" and just drizzling their little vocals over the top.

Seriously, I do not have enough "fuck you" in the world for this way of thinking about or talking about or projecting onto music, artists and the songwriting process. And if you think it's "rude" for me to put it this way, then GOOD. It's a shitty, dismissive, sexist attitude and fuck it with guns. You're gross for still talking this way.

Nah it was entirely meant to be shitty and dismissive but don't read it as 'PRODUCER DUDES DOIN' THE REAL WORK HERE' because they're the main target - I am shitty and kneejerk dismissive about nearly all Hyperdub/Night Slugs releases that I hear and enjoy being so. I've done both vocalists a disservice there so sorry, fair cop.

FWIW I don't actually like either vocalist or their songwriting but the Kelela album in particular doesn't SOUND like a properly collaborative process, it sounds like the producers doing the same thing they always do and Kelela doing what she can over the top, which I'm totally find with in MC-led genres but is hit and miss when there are actual singers involved. The two elements sound awkwardly grafted onto one another.

One of the great things about this record it that is DOES sound like the work of a properly integrated process with Twigs leading it. I mean I said upthread:

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.

Arreet !

Don't think I've posted on ILM for a decade but breaking silence to express my joy upon listening to LP1. Heard Video Girl in a skeezy record shop with a faulty striplight - sublime moment.

holy shit, geordie racer hi

No opinion about Lucki Eck$ yet (a quick google turned up another track he's done with Danny Brown but I haven't listened yet) but has anybody heard/seen this track she produced for him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfMhK0vjeg

I just watched the interview with Kelela and Bok Bok where they both basically said that the NS crew sent beats to her and she wrote songs over the top of them, which isn't to diminish her creative input into the tedious album they made together but the artist-producer dynamic is a long way from what's happening here.

I liked the interview where Twigs was explaining that her producers were there basically as technical hired hands to help her execute her own vision, even down to 'find me a chord that sounds forlorn but with a hint of hope' or something in that vein.

The best artist-producer pairings are usually some kind of symbiotic relationship like Katy B and Geeneus but this album feels very much the result one of one forceful vision.

re the name i wonder if the pointless terminal -s in nicknames is a brit thing