FKA twigs

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

Future is so jarring and unwelcome on this.

I didn't even notice him, tbh

That's quite an achievement.

Hope the rest of the album is better than this single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Rro6TQgpU

this one's much much better and the video rules too

OK 'Home With You' is amazing and the first one that's got me properly excited about the album.

early heads up to nyc
http://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/fka_twigs

https://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/fka-twigs-interview/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfr6luGYViE

this is a pretty great performance - the version of "home with you" is better than the studio version

album is pretty good too

Fallen Alien is astonishing and made me want an entire album of stuff like that.

i hear the shows she did in Oakland this week were amazing, but I didn't know about them until too late. Hope she comes back through.

man, I've tried. I don't get it.

same! I feel like her music is something that would appeal to me much more than it does .

was hoping context would help me like "holy terrain" more but nope. first three tracks on this are a real awesome ride though, imo "sad day" breaches janet jackson "empty"-core which is irresistible to me

9.4 BNM on p4k

really had to work for that one

I have a sense that FKA Twigs enthusiasts have a vision of R&B with which I have no sympathy.

Was at the 2nd Oakland show last night, had to go after loving her at Primavera. Much more intimacy from her, she's very shy and soft spoken when she's not singing; her personality belies the beguiling mystery and exotic and erotic intensity of her stage presence and singing voice. However much of the new music brings this part of her personality to the fore so it was great seeing again in a smaller setting. And she opened up with a tap dance!

I wonder if they've been selling the record prior to last night's show. People were walking around with the LP so I wonder if it was the first time it was available to purchase during the tour.

Is this really R&B though? The artists it reminds me the most of are Kate Bush or Bjork, I don’t feel like it’s fair or its intention to be pinned to a particular genre.

It’s being allowed discussion by mods on the subreddits of popheads, indieheads and hiphopheads which is a honestly a big tell of how hard it is to pin down. I don’t remember when was the last time that all 3 subreddits allowed discussion on one album.

lol at an album disrupting the reddit ecosystem

it's not like there hasn't been r&b in her musical dna before but i agree she's more in the kate bush/bjork etc. art pop lineage, and this album feels like the balance has shifted even more towards the latter. the closest r&b reference point i can think of is janet's most outre moments like "empty" as brad said and that's something i'm very into

yeah I wouldn't classify this album as R&B; it's more akin to Bat for Lashes to me.

I have seen Twigs perform 3 times and I think she is one of the greatest live acts of the 2010s. I always try to catch her shows when I can. That said, I rarely listen to her records in their entirety even though I think she is a fantastic musician. Talent like hers doesn't need a specific genre, much like Bjork and Kate Bush.

Love this so far

Not to be too narcissistic but 'mary magdalene' made me go put on this track that I put out four years ago, in which I was more or less imagining I was making a Twigs song.

Fallen Alien is sick, def a nice change of pace

I like hearing her try a little different vocal approach

Wish this was as exciting as the first LP :(

oh my god, the cover

beautiful record. can't wait to continue listening to it over the weekend.

Am a fan of Twigs but am hugely turned off by the trend of distorted face covers ie St. Vincent, Juana Molina. Not a productive comment, I know.

I have seen Twigs perform 3 times and I think she is one of the greatest live acts of the 2010s. I always try to catch her shows when I can.

Do you like Pink?

xpost

i like the distorted face covers. i can see how they're offputting to some, but i like that they're pushing back against expectations of how a female pop star should present themselves. we often tend to see the male equivalent as adventurous or artistic or mischievous (the peter gabriel facemelt, richard d james smile + a million other things he's done), whereas the female version as just grotesque. plus it also pushes against the trend from the past few several years of covers featuring close-ups of the artist looking up and 3/4 to the side, as if they had just seen the face of god (and often with the celestial light shining across their perfect features). it's cool to take that as a starting point and then work against it, i think.