"But this bag of sand is so baggy and sand-shaped!!!!"
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
What is "the other thread" ppl keep mentioning here?
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Do You Identify With Lyrics, And Ifso, How?
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
ty
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 August 2014 10:00 (nine years ago) link
One unexpected thing I'm taking away from this album is a healthier respect for Paul Epworth's versatility.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
He's got more than just an EP's worth of ideas
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
I just tried to like that post, I've got to get off of Facebook
current lyrical obsession: "I could kiss you for hours and not miss a thing"
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8g6FMEXE
― example (crüt), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
one thing i'm gradually noticing is that music everyone else goes nuts for that i don't is often characterised by really spidery, skittery beats which i guess are complicated syncopated rhythms or something.
i wish there was more layered choral stuff on this album! it's growing on me though
― lex pretend, Friday, 22 August 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
xpost mtv played that video so much in 1998. EVEN WHEN I DREAM OF YOUUUUUUUUUUU
― markers, Friday, 22 August 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
The headphones pro tip helped me a lot with this album.
― slip jig (seandalai), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
i wish there was more layered choral stuff on this album!
Me too. That's one of my favourite things TBH. Someone please commission FKA Twigs to write an Opera, or an Oratio or something along those lines.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
I also wish that
― cerealbar, Friday, 22 August 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
I love when she goes all demented-Enya on "Closer"
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
god yeah enya! that's totally a good comparison to some of the stuff they do w the layer vox
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
*enya awakes from unholy slumber*
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
This thing she did with dance group Wet Wipez is awesome - "Preface" remixed by Aphex and most definitely, "arty":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A43M0GJ0tA
I could watch her dance all day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nGFNayjYrM
― Roz, Saturday, 23 August 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
not actually remixed by Aphex btw, just a bad (and badly-phrased) comparison, sry about that
― Roz, Saturday, 23 August 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Holy shit, that Wet Wipez thing is probably the single most Goth thing I have ever watched in my life. So amazing. Waaaaaaahhhhhh. <3
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 23 August 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
i am listening to this album as a kind of dystopic inversion of grimes' utopian "visions".
― lars von (Treeship), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I am listening to this album as if I only ever heard half of Grimes' album once
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
i am not listening to this album anymore
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
I am still listening to this album.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
I listened to this album! Twice!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 25 August 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
sometimes i am listening to this albumother times i'm noti'm an enigma
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
areyoulisteningtofkatwigs.com
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 August 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
I keep listening to this album, but Two Weeks remains the always-coming-back-to-you-boo song.
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 25 August 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
I think this album is way boring
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
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?
― niels, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 07:20 (nine years ago) link
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).
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 08:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah, closer is my favorite song on the album too but i am a witch house apologist.
― lars von (Treeship), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Thinking Pendulum is my fav
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
the rap bit in "Hours" is my favourite thing on this
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 29 August 2014 10:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
(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
― 龜, Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
(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.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
Like.. How do you even parse a name like that? It's just trying to be annoying afaict.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
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
― 龜, Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
I mean thank god she didn't name herself "Social Media"
― 龜, Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
If my dad said 'who are you listening to at the moment?' and I said 'FKA Twigs' he would have a fucking field day.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
Twigs was a great name by itself fuiud
― 龜, Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
Yes, would be fine by itself. With FKA it magically becomes very ugly IMO. Dunno, I should probably get over it.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
You guys are doing it wrong, it's "fuckah twigs".
― faghetti (fgti), Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
Soon to do a duet with RAH DIGGA!
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 6 September 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
chap what's yr dad's deal
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Saturday, 6 September 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 6 September 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link