Tuesday 5 August 2014

FKA Twigs - LP1 Review

Grade - A+

FKA Twigs, the London-Based artist, has dropped her full-length debut and it's nothing short of fascinating. The album has a wonderful trip-hop influence but sounds totally, aurally alien. The tracks are layered deeply with beats and Twig's fading and rising voice. The album sounds terrifying at times, with Twig's sparse voice overlayed by creepy beats. The album is consistent throughout, but there are some highlight tracks, the single 'Pendulum' is fantastic, an alien sounding but riveting song, as is the song Video Girl. One could state many influences on this LP, such as Mariah Carey, Frank Ocean or Mica Levi, but these are very tangible when listening to the record, it sounds completely unique and her own. This album is haunting and unique, there's nothing out quite like it.

The album is currently available to stream on iTunes.

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