FKA twigs

hell yeah

she has been working her ass off on that stripper pole in her IG stories for awhile

The video's amazing (when she first comes stalking out on those heels it's like something from a Cremaster movie), but the song kinda only exists as a soundtrack to the video. The two of them together remind me of one of those commercials for a fantasy video game where a slow piano ballad is playing as explosions are going off all around you and you're shooting lasers at dragons.

It's great paired with the video, but I think it's a strong song in its own right.

This video and this song and the subtly ASMR production = incredible

I am not into this song at all. The video is great, though.

Beautiful song. The video is nice until it goes all CGI though...

first impression was that the video was incredible but the song was meh, but listening to it now without the visuals and it's really beautiful still. is that some vocal percussion I'm hearing towards the end?

she's so strong as a dancer... I've done aerial/acrobatic arts before and pole dancing was just so physically painful for me. every core muscle hurt, your thighs burn, and the blisters that you get on your hands, yargh.

song is great and the sound design feels like a big step up from anything on her debut, so gorgeous

I think her singing is really, really good but I’m not taken by the song

Same after two listens but maybe that will change?

I was not feeling this one at first, I think I have an innate aversion to piano-led ballads. Now I think this song is too damn pretty to be ignored, I love the sparse, weird arrangements, I love her performance, I love the video. I don’t love that she pulled the trick of making me consider a piano ballad as one of my favorite songs of 2019.

I was initially put off by the ponderous bong bong basic ballad intro and in general the song would be better without it but the sound that occurs when she sings 'wrapped in cellophane' redeems that x100.

tbh my main beef with the song is that i can't help but think about the 'roy orbison wrapped in clingfilm' thing the entire time

Is she still w shia labeouf?

Cellophane, Live at The Wallace Collection

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

holy fuck. also love she deemed necessary to have someone subtly doing the 'percussion' of the song.

She plays an instrument? Cool.

Someone watched the wide lenses in wainscotted rooms of The Favourite.

Am I wrong in thinking of her as in a similar category of musicians as Bjork? Similarly tone deaf on catchy melodies, and deeply reliant on progressive production for her appeal...

You are mistaken! About both her Bjork (“Birthday”, for example, is a very repetitive instrumental song carries entirely by her gift for melody)

Mind, I'm a fan who purchased the prior album. And what brings me back to it is a seemingly tortured soul amidst the metronomes and synthetic expurgate, not the songwriting.

Its perhaps a failing of mine that I can't make out more than half the words here. Maybe I have a similar relationship to FKA Twigs as I had to Disco Inferno, where the more I knew the less I loved...

that was never true about Bjork and while i could have understood that as an argument against twigs at the time of her first EPs etc. it certainly isn't true now

I find her interesting as an artist but the music grates on me in much the same way Tori Amos did

Bjork writes awesome melodies! Right up to Medulla/half of Volta, she was a straight up pop artist - albeit one who seemingly inhabited a entirely different planet. But still, she wrote plenty of actual *songs* with proper choruses and all.

After that, yes, she started becoming more interested in sounds/arrangements more than melodies, and it all sounded gorgeous and forward-thinking but equally kind of same-y and sterile.

That was kind of how I felt about Twigs when she debuted but I think she's grown into a much better songwriter, if never as melodic or straightforward pop as Bjork was at her peak. I do think she's the best music video artist since Bjork though.

How are bjork and/or fka tone deaf on catchy melodies? That’s quite a hongro statement.

It’s hard to sing along to their songs, yes. But that doesn’t mean they write unmemorable songs. I wont even waste my time on this one, sorry.

That said, I can somewhat agree with the point that Bjork hasn’t written anything truly “catchy” since medulla, and fka was more oriented towards production on her early work.

I wont concede that cellophane doesn’t have any hooks though as every section of that one has been constantly stuck in my head for weeks.

can imagine thinking utopia sounds sterile, it's pure dew-kissed freshness

Just assume I've joined the "what do you mean, tone deaf on catchy melodies" dogpile, it will save us all time

After that, yes, she started becoming more interested in sounds/arrangements more than melodies, and it all sounded gorgeous and forward-thinking but equally kind of same-y and sterile.

as the björk poll revealed to me, this is a false narrative

Sterile was prob not the right word there, I just mean kind of tuneless? I think Utopia is a gorgeous record, just overly repetitive in parts.

Anyway, the point was neither her nor Twigs are bad at melodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucL26I7ZN08

Blimey

I was there for Twigs show (btw Primavera was really amazing, my first large scale festival in over 10 years). One of the more brilliant and flawless live performances I've seen. The costumes, atmospherics, pacing, transitions, sword dancing, pole dancing were all on point. Her voice was transcendent. What a set!

The opening bit "A Woman's Prerogative" was spine chilling.

https://i-d.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/zmjny4/fka-twigs-interview-magdalene-new-album

finally some more news - album is titled Magdalene, out this fall, mostly co-produced by Nicolas Jaar, one track "Holy Ground" features Future

Interesting, would not have expected that pairing

Thank god it’s not Arca! I hate his productions and what he did with Bjork. There was talks of Oneohtrix producing but I suppose it didn’t work out either.

Very excited with this pairing tbh.

opn did produce some tracks she performed live in 2016 but they're not part of this new lot unless they've been renamed so idk if they'll ever see the light of day again

tomorrow... holy terrain featuring @1future.
thank you to my sweet friends @skrillex and @jackantonoff for helping me drive this baby home x pic.twitter.com/QMk06lQ5Md

— FKA twigs (@FKAtwigs) September 8, 2019

"holy terrain" is out tomorrow, co-produced by jack antonoff and skrillex

Hot Antonoff autumn

antonoff is a somewhat surprising choice of collaborator for her since her general aesthetic is pretty far removed from his usual work which tends to be somewhere in the realms of synthpop or singer-songwriter-y stuff

re: arca i think her collaborations with twigs and kelela have been her best work so i'd be happy to hear more collaborations with twigs. her work with bjork has been a bit hit and miss - the beats on vulnicura were fine but nothing special and i really didn't like utopia at all, though that might just be due to bjork's songwriting being at its most meandering on it

and album is out 25/8!

thousand eyes
home with you
sad day
holy terrain (feat. Future)
mary magdalene
fallen alien
mirrored heart
daybed
cellophane

https://music.apple.com/us/album/magdalene/1477652618

apparently opn is indeed on it too

skrillex? this is not what i want.

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

it's fine but not really the sort of showstopper she's capable of, though the sound design continues to be a step above LP1

the video and general atmosphere of it is pretty reminiscent of madonna's "frozen" even if it doesn't really sound that similar

The sound design on the first album is tremendous wtf?

I think at this stage handwringing over who the producer is is missing the point - it's not easy to distinguish the Arca tracks from the rest on LP1 because we all know Twigs herself is the main creative force behind the production and arrangement choices. The same will go for the new one I'm certain.

also skrillex is a good producer

there's a few bits where LP1's sonic palette doesn't quite cohere for me, especially the drum sounds - "two weeks" is one of the worst for this - but i still like the album a lot, just a minor quibble i have with it

He's a great (actually underrated maybe?) producer, and none of his pop work sounds anything like the EDM brostep that people still think of when they hear 'Skrillex'.

I posted this in his dedicated thread where it was predictably uncommented on but Skrillex's new single is...good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9k1ma-WoAQ

my guess is the ty dolla $ign thread would be the one that'd get the most interest for that (but it is pretty good!)

the twigs song sounds like tinashe... the future part is pretty useless

Ok these production credits are crazy, really some pop music/Yeezus-style 'call everybody and assemble the best bits' stuff. I guess it's a credit to Twigs that it all sounds of a piece, but I hope there are some more fireworks on the rest of the record given who's involved.

some questions about contributions to holy terrain. the full credits are not online yet but a lot of people worked very hard to make this song what it is - thank you to @Koreless, @SounwaveTDE, @arca1000000, @kennybeats, @poobear, laura sisk @jackantonoff, @Skrillex & @1future <3 pic.twitter.com/2tQSeurkNH

— FKA twigs (@FKAtwigs) September 11, 2019