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.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 7 August 2014 12:54 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 7 August 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 August 2014 13:13 (nine years ago) link
i love all kinds of sounds i could never hum to save my life
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 7 August 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
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?
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 7 August 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I think so.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 August 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
i love all kinds of sounds i could never hum to save my life― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080)
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 August 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
loving this. earnestly looking forward to lex explaining why we're listening to the wrong thing
― Simon H., Friday, 8 August 2014 03:56 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 August 2014 08:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Friday, 8 August 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I'd be wary of falling into the Santigold trap here
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 8 August 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
i found myself humming the vocal melody to 'pendulum' in the shower this morning tbh
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 August 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
"When I first released music and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before, it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later, now she's an R&B singer.. "
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/09/fka-twigs-two-weeks-lp1
― piscesx, Saturday, 9 August 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
Bingo.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 August 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
Interesting that that quote appears in an article that also contains "Her hands wave violently around wisps of Afro that have escaped her do," and "Growing up in Gloucester as the only mixed-race girl in her Catholic school, a natural rhythm propelled her to childhood classes and through to an eventual career throwing shapes for pop stars".
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Saturday, 9 August 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
Ugh son
― The Reverend, Saturday, 9 August 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
Never saw it as an R&B album, or R&B artist for that matter. Lights Out and Kicks are my highlights so far.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 9 August 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
Actually I've had Kicks on repeat for a while now.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 9 August 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
i don't think i'd call this r&b but it's not so far out of that lane... it's sorta ambient slow jammy shit. detwangified mazzy star with more weed and a bulletproof soul.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 August 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
listened to what i could find on US spotify on the way in to work tonight: two recent singles & EP2. i'd watched the "two weeks" & "water me" videos a little while back, spun EP2 at some point earlier this year, but tbh, nothing had stuck so clearly in my mind as the associated images of twigs herself (LP1 art has to be in the running for album cover of the year).
turns out, given some time, volume & attention, that "two weeks" is magnificent. not quite catchy enough for mainstream pop (is it?), but fascinating lyrics, voice & production. played it three or four times in a row and am looking forward to rest of the album. can understand the peter gabriel comparisons in relation to "pendulum" and some of the EP stuff, obv bridge point being "don't give up", maybe the so era in general. not the sort of thing i'd probably ever hear absent the attention hereabouts, so, as usual, thx, ILX.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Sunday, 10 August 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
"two weeks" is magnificent. not quite catchy enough for mainstream pop (is it?)
it's currently on Radio 1's A-list
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 August 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
I can't wait to see the "Kicks" video.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
just glancing through the beginning of this thread and lolled at this:
<3 twigs, but let's not lie to ourselves, Arca is the real draw.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
the best song on this album features production from paul epworth which is surprising considering the roster
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
a natural rhythm
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
haha, but the collision of the vocals with out there/stark/daring beats is still the thing...turns out she can make better beats for herself than Arca, so great!
btw anyone have production credits for this?
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
this is really interesting
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
so this is like totally an ilx album of the year right?
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
I feel like if this was the exact same album but had Karin Dreijer Andersson on the cover, it would unambiguously be ILX's album of the year
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
*googles*
ah good ol' melty face mask from the knife
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
So far I'm not into this the way I expected to be. Two Weeks/Pendulum/Kicks are great but the others kind of float by ime.
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
i feel like this relates the new shabazz palaces in some way, floatiness-wise
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
^^^ yup, I get the same feeling
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Liking the vibe but find the vocals a bit too precious. Gets better after each listen in any case
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
same but replace "kicks" with "video girl" even though i hate songs that slow down for no reason
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
wish this album was poppier
― cerealbar, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
So far I'm not into this the way I expected to be.
yup. I'm trying though
― Number None, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
I listened to it yesterday and it felt a bit samey and didn't grab me really tbh. I'll give it another go tho.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Perfect album! Straight prog, reminds me of David Sylvian of all things.
― faghetti (fgti), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
i think those wanting something poppier would be into this Shaprece EP: https://soundcloud.com/shaprece/sets/molting-ep-1
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
http://i.minus.com/ibx32hgaBcCgjg.gif
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
O_O
i could watch that all day
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
haven't heard the full album yet, but i think "water me" is my favorite single track so far. "two weeks" is close.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
Amazing gif Grady
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
hat tip to goon tie
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
really feeling dumb for skipping her pitchfork set but she was playing at the same time as st. vincent
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
She'll be in the US for a month:
November 6th 930 Club, Washington, D.C.November 7th Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PANovember 8th Terminal 5, New York, NYNovember 11th Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MANovember 13th Metro, Chicago, ILNovember 14th Fine Line, Minneapolis, MNNovember 17th Commodore, Vancouver, CanadaNovember 18th Showbox, Seattle, WANovember 20th Regency, San Francisco, CANovember 21st Regent, Los Angeles, CANovember 26th Parish, Austin, TXNovember 28th Trees, Dallas, TXNovember 29th Republic, New Orleans, LADecember 1st Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TNDecember 2nd Terminal West, Atlanta, GADecember 3rd The Social, Orlando, FL
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ySPZcO9.gif
Happy that cybergoth is finally influencing others
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
nice clip above of FKA twigs (not the lol-goths) is pretty much a catalogue of moves taken directly from voguing/the ball scene
she's doing handwork, spinning into a death drop, and then ends with some duckwalking
and doing it very well, obviously
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
yeah when i saw her at pitchfork she said she was learning how to vogue
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link