FKA twigs

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

i found myself humming the vocal melody to 'pendulum' in the shower this morning tbh

"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

Bingo.

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".

Ugh son

Never saw it as an R&B album, or R&B artist for that matter. Lights Out and Kicks are my highlights so far.

Actually I've had Kicks on repeat for a while now.

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.

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.

"two weeks" is magnificent. not quite catchy enough for mainstream pop (is it?)

it's currently on Radio 1's A-list

I can't wait to see the "Kicks" video.

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.

the best song on this album features production from paul epworth which is surprising considering the roster

a natural rhythm

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.

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?

this is really interesting

so this is like totally an ilx album of the year right?

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

*googles*

ah good ol' melty face mask from the knife

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.

i feel like this relates the new shabazz palaces in some way, floatiness-wise

^^^ yup, I get the same feeling

Liking the vibe but find the vocals a bit too precious. Gets better after each listen in any case

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.

same but replace "kicks" with "video girl" even though i hate songs that slow down for no reason

wish this album was poppier

So far I'm not into this the way I expected to be.

yup. I'm trying though

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.

Perfect album! Straight prog, reminds me of David Sylvian of all things.

i think those wanting something poppier would be into this Shaprece EP: https://soundcloud.com/shaprece/sets/molting-ep-1

http://i.minus.com/ibx32hgaBcCgjg.gif

O_O

i could watch that all day

haven't heard the full album yet, but i think "water me" is my favorite single track so far. "two weeks" is close.

Amazing gif Grady

hat tip to goon tie

really feeling dumb for skipping her pitchfork set but she was playing at the same time as st. vincent

She'll be in the US for a month:

November 6th 930 Club, Washington, D.C.
November 7th Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
November 8th Terminal 5, New York, NY
November 11th Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA
November 13th Metro, Chicago, IL
November 14th Fine Line, Minneapolis, MN
November 17th Commodore, Vancouver, Canada
November 18th Showbox, Seattle, WA
November 20th Regency, San Francisco, CA
November 21st Regent, Los Angeles, CA
November 26th Parish, Austin, TX
November 28th Trees, Dallas, TX
November 29th Republic, New Orleans, LA
December 1st Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
December 2nd Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
December 3rd The Social, Orlando, FL

http://i.imgur.com/ySPZcO9.gif

Happy that cybergoth is finally influencing others

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

yeah when i saw her at pitchfork she said she was learning how to vogue

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, August 12, 2014 10:26 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was gonna talk about how i don't like this as much as the grimes album but now i feel lke a racist

See this is the album I wanted Visions to be. Not of knock on Visions at all, just that LP1 is more my cup of tea.

I love Grimes but 'Two Weeks' is objectively better than Grimes' entire catalog

crazy talk