![]() “ I’ve never seen a hero like me in a sci-fi” she sings during the song’s bridge, her voice becoming increasingly distorted and extra-terrestrial as the emotional gravitas intensifies, before a harmonious left-turn on the song’s chorus and swells of strings and woodwinds. The heart-wrenching ballad’s placement as this album’s closer and anti-climactic finish may leave listeners wanting more real life doesn’t always guarantee closure.Įlsewhere, “Home with You” features chord progressions reminiscent of Kid A/Amnesiac-era Radiohead not only in instrumentation and piano chord voicings but also the treatment of FKA Twigs’ voice. This was a new FKA Twigs: vulnerable and emotionally raw (“ Didn’t I do it for you?/ Why don’t I do it for you?/ Why won’t you do it for me? When all I do is for you?”) while maintaining the unpredictability of efforts past, but only in a melodic sense that’s less reliant on off-kilter beats. The hype around her highly anticipated sophomore album, Magdalene, began as early as April this year with the release of teaser track, “Cellophane,” rightly praised for her painfully moving vocal performance and its starkly subtle, minimal arrangement driven by earnest, melancholy piano. Although she hasn’t been totally inactive these last five years-aside from 2018’s guest sport on A$AP Rocky’s “Fukk Sleep,” she released the critically lauded EP M3LL155X in 2015 and non-album single “Good to Love” in 2016-there has been much speculation as to her artistic direction in the interim, which saw the more experimental end of R&B start to dwindle and fade. FKA Twigs’ 2014 debut full-length, LP1, saw the British singer-songwriter assume the throne as the new, reluctant queen of alternative R&B.
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