FKA twigs

I've been trying to figure out why half of this album reminds me lyrically of Robert Smith and failing. I think it's partially my brain trying to connect one thing I like to another thing I like but there's some passing similarity between her narrative voice and Smith's more straightforward, less "I've taken all the drugs" metaphorfests.

Also, after discovering the "pull out the incisor" line I am reminded very strongly of thematic links to Purity Ring, particularly "Fineshrine".

Kim or Fox?

Reminding me now of Channel Orange

I've been trying to figure out why half of this album reminds me lyrically of Robert Smith and failing.

sad/goth in a way that seems "knowing" but not in a way that jeopardizes its effectiveness in a more direct sense

honestly don't see the hype about this one. Yes it's got that whole kate bush meets boards of canada jamming in the basement kinda "vibe" but it ultimately leaves me cold. and the visual aspect, well let's just say annie lennox did it better in the 80s, and i didn't like it then either. despite these criticisms, i'm calling a solid eighter from the pitchfork boys and a possible bnm. looking forward to anthony fantano's take on this one. just my 2 cents..

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I can't get the notion that sex and gender in male-made electronic music is completely ignored out of my head. So true, so interesting, I think. Listening to Man-Machine right now, it's so obviously also about gender-roles. Any interest in a new thread?

Fantano has spoken.

I like it. But I'd also like a '90s Tricky produced Grimes album. Trip Hop never died.

why exactly are we giving a fuck about anything anthony fantano has to say now?

I was curious as to why too. Just responding to missingNO above.

so people are wondering why this cool/alternative artist is dating the posh teen idol from twilight films who is a multi millionaire. she went to a private school, which in England is never anything but hugely expensive and full of elites stuck perpetually eternally in the past while at the same time being in the modern day (vampires), she's spent most her life only associating with rich people (millionaire). the school was also catholic (heavy christian/chastity themes in twilight obvs), she said in her interview she was often looked at as being weird and ugly by people in her school being the only black student (twilight lone outsider theme). he's actually a perfect match. <3

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ILX threads are so predictable now days....

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

and it still sounds like tom petty

saw her live this week, impressive. big stage presence, great voice, sounds sounded good and even enhanced live which isn't always the case with electronic acts for example 'Numbers' sounded much, much better live than it does on the album in almost every way. Maybe this was a problem with the recording and engineering on the lp because live it had a lot more energy, fuller booming sound which I think fits it style. Crowd was very receptive and full. It was the Birmingham 'hometown' show she stopped at one point to say this show was emotional for her because her family are from Birmingham and a christmas day anecdote. She also stopped in the middle of the show to sign something for someone at the front, which I'd never seen before. Considering she's so new to this it was also noticable how easily she fills up an hour+ set with good songs that all work well live. There wasn't really any 'down' periods of the set. Considering this is the start of her first ever UK tour she seemed like composed been doing it for longer. There wasn't as much of the crazily impressive dance moves shown on like that yt video of her nY show she was more restrained in her moves but was dancing pretty much all the way through which added energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99YyWeqHaBo

okay twigs

FKAtofu

if she could dance like that after using google glass imagine how she could have danced after a bowl of frosted flakes

she'd kill tony the tiger with some sugar-fueled crane kicks, obvs.

album is still flames idc how many commercials she appears in.

lol is that the corniest bit of musician-product synergy since

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

That was a fast sellout.

Damn millenials.

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thnx fka googs works gr8

on that brief note can we just say how jay elecyarmulke is...maybe...not...that...good...and will never be that good even if he puts out the album he's never gonna put out *runs from backpackers at lightspeed*

is brian depalma going to get co-production credit or is this one of those 'curated reblog' type things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar0xLps7WSY

Thought this was really cool

"Give Up" has become the secret heart of the album for me, although I like the contradictory mishearing I first came away with in the chorus more than the actual lyrics:

Just nod your head and give up
I'm not gonna let you give up, babe

New video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jhTiLuGezI

Never noticed how "Video Girl" outros with metronome from "Water Me".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/05/fka-twigs-jimmy-fallon_n_6108212.html

She was on the Jimmy Fallon show the other night, and I just saw her in DC last night at a packed sold out show. Impressive stage presence and dancing and her r'n'b meets Kate Bush vocals with her 3 member band adding electro/hiphop & whatever percussive sounds & more on synths, drums & bass (switching around ). Plus a good light show. Only criticism--Some of the songs sound a bit samey to me though (both melodically and rhythmically)

thats a pretty dope performance - lol i think it might have either broken jimmy fallon's brain or caused him to spontaneously orgasm or both

just been listening to the album for the first time in a couple months and it really holds up

Yeah it was a p good performance

Kinda wish she had used some more backing vocals or even brought along singers

the fabric dancing is amazing, i wonder if it's just a matter of turning fans on and off at different times?

pretty brave as a firs ustv appearence considering it looked like it couldve got wrapped irretrievably around her face at any time

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/30/-sp-fka-twigs-interview-lp1-two-weeks-video-girl-robert-pattinson

the jools holland performance she did of that same song earlier this year was better than in the fallon video, where her singing sounds pretty weak (not totally sure what the writer was seeing, though maybe his eyes were cloudy from all the sobbing he did with twigs). excited to see her live next year, though yeah, a lot of her songs are pretty samey. hoping that for lp2, her songs get a bit more distinct.

interesting interview. nice to not read anything stupid about how she 'gets sex', even that has now just become how she 'gets relationships', albeit ones with famous movie stars.

*even if that

i think i've recognized that the songs i like best on this album sound like james blake (whose name hasn't been mentioned anywhere on this thread prior?) and now i'm really hoping they do something together

I've pretty much ignored James Blake; which songs on LP1 sound like his work?

It's a trap!

lol

i love james blake tho' i dig it's not for everyone. You've managed to avoid retrograde till now dan? it was his single off the last album, one of my fave songs of the year and seems like the sorta thing you might like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6PcFFUm5I
Lights On / Two Weeks / Numbers / Pendulum are the songs i like on the album and they've got similar mouthfeel imo

tbf I'd never listened to JB's second album. That's a good song.

I like Blake and Twigs. A collab would be pretty cool, but honestly, she's got a lot of people on her production roster already!

personally holding out hope for twigs to do something with Lone, Machinedrum, Cooly G or CREEP

second album is pretty lean for great tracks tbqh but i will ride for these two as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aNRCoOsWb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlOmdyH_7Os

Lone, Machinedrum, Cooly G or CREEP