FKA twigs

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

like this a million times more than grimes

maybe i'm not at the right point in my life for this unrelenting crystalline dourness. i wish there were anger like a Knife album or joy like a Grimes album, but after a few listens i'm finding this stifling rather than cathartic. i think "kicks" does this album's thing best though

i dunno about the knife so much as like watery bjork, which is to say modern bjork

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

― 龜, Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:13 PM (1 hour ago)

yeah no. both good, quite different. objectively bullshit.

objecterizer

i wish there were anger like a Knife album or joy like a Grimes album, but after a few listens i'm finding this stifling rather than cathartic.

Think "stifling" is the point.

Happy that cybergoth is finally influencing others

― 龜, Tuesday, August 12, 2014 2:04 PM Bookmark

uh

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

― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Let's go see her @ Metro.

Her live show looks amazing - the dancing O_O

btw anyone have production credits for this?

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 12:21 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've read this on another board but not sure of its source:

Preface produced by FKA twigs
Lights On produced by Arca
Two Weeks produced by Emile Haynie and FKA twigs
Hours produced by Emile Hayie, Dev Hynes, Class Casino and Arca
Pendulum produced by Paul Epworth and FKA twigs
Video Girl produced by Emile Haynie
Numbers produced by FKA twigs and Sampha
Closer produced by FKA twigs, Cy An and Tic.
Give Up produced by Emile Haynie and Arca
Kicks produced by FKA twigs and Cy An
One Time produced by inc. And FKA twigs

Guess if someone actually owns the album they should be able to verify. I've ordered the deluxe vinyl, despite the groans of my hip pocket.

Grimes sounds (deliberately) cheap as hell while this is lush and expansive and perfectly produced. I don't understand why anyone is comparing them.

have you heard "go"?

Her first Ep, which i only heard for the first time a few weeks ago, definitely had an early Tricky vibe

OK, so a few weeks ago, I was wandering around Dawson's Heights (massive Mayan Temple-inspired Brutalist housing estate that hangs over South London like a battleship) sketching, and there was this song blasting out of someone's window, echoing off the concrete, which was the perfect soundtrack, all ghostly echoing Liz Fraser vocals with booming hollow trip-hop beats underneath. And I was asking around on Twitter, what the hell was this song I heard?

Bought the album and turns out it was indeed this.

But guys. C'mon. R&B? This is straight-up 4AD!

Seriously, on the first track, (and also on stuff like Closer) those vocal harmonies, I almost started giggling because it reminded me so much (in a good way) of medieval chant-based goth like Dead Can Dance / Miranda Sex Garden! (I have no idea if she's ~influenced~ by those artists, but to me, it sounds like she is mining the seams of early Baroque, the place where plainsong turns into polyphony, very early classical and "churchy" music.) Those kind of vocal swoops and "oh-oh!"s in an echo chamber totally remind me of early Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, His Name Is Alive, that kind of thing. But with South London beats bolted on underneath, in a really compelling and alien fusion that still totally works.

The other artist I can think of making this kind of music is Julianna Barwick. That kind of huge, cavernous, churchy polyphony with lots of airy, floaty space. Like, if you're approaching this thinking "R&B" you are going to be hugely disappointed and come out fuming like The Lex. That is not the slightest bit what this is. But if you come into this thinking "Julianna Barwick" or "Cocteau Twins with Night Bus beats" that's a heck of a lot closer to what's going on.

"The Knife"?!?! (No. Fever Ray maybe, with the more gothy side) "Grimes"? (again, 4AD) Bjork? What, coz she wears *princess leia braids*? You guys are just grabbing at straws with the ~ladyproducers~ here.