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FKA Twigs
' early EPs were such jewel-like statements of purpose, delivering songs full of sensuality and heartache so economically, that an album almost seemed superfluous. None of these songs appear on the simply titled
LP 1
, a bold move that extends to the rest of the album. On her first full-length,
Tahliah Barnett
opens up her sound by working with a host of producers: along with previous collaborator
Arca
,
Paul Epworth
and
Dev Hynes
contribute their sound-shaping skills, along with
Emile Haynie
, whose work on
Eminem
's
Recovery
earned him a Grammy. These collaborators help
give
a lusher sound that's more accessible, and more overtly R&B than her earlier work, but maintains its ethereal sensuality. It's an approach that shines on the lead single "Two Weeks": the flipside of songs like "Papi Pacify" and "Water Me," pain suffused and sometimes eclipsed desire, it finds
powerfully in control of her sexuality, rooting out doubt and infidelity over the verses' underwater beats and soaring on the ecstatic choruses. The album's other singles are just as charged. The
Epworth
-produced "Pendulum" amplifies
' bittersweet side beautifully, and when she sings "I dance feelings like they're spoken," it's as intimate as the more overtly autobiographical and anguished "Video Girl," a callback to her time dancing in clips for songs by
Ed Sheeran
Jessie J
. Here and throughout
, she excels at broadening her emotional palette as well as her musical one. She glides from the album's lows to its highs, juxtaposing pitch-black tracks like "Numbers," where chopped-up breaths, beats, and horror movie strings channel panic, loss, and anger, with radiant ones like "Closer," the poppiest
song yet (and one that
Barnett
produced herself). Elsewhere, the spacious, moody "Kicks" and "Lights On" recalls her EPs without rehashing them, reinforcing how seamlessly she made the leap to a grander scope.
' music was already so fully realized that
can't really be called the album where she came into her own. Rather, her music has been tended to since the "Water Me" days, and now it's flourishing. ~ Heather Phares
' early EPs were such jewel-like statements of purpose, delivering songs full of sensuality and heartache so economically, that an album almost seemed superfluous. None of these songs appear on the simply titled
LP 1
, a bold move that extends to the rest of the album. On her first full-length,
Tahliah Barnett
opens up her sound by working with a host of producers: along with previous collaborator
Arca
,
Paul Epworth
and
Dev Hynes
contribute their sound-shaping skills, along with
Emile Haynie
, whose work on
Eminem
's
Recovery
earned him a Grammy. These collaborators help
give
a lusher sound that's more accessible, and more overtly R&B than her earlier work, but maintains its ethereal sensuality. It's an approach that shines on the lead single "Two Weeks": the flipside of songs like "Papi Pacify" and "Water Me," pain suffused and sometimes eclipsed desire, it finds
powerfully in control of her sexuality, rooting out doubt and infidelity over the verses' underwater beats and soaring on the ecstatic choruses. The album's other singles are just as charged. The
Epworth
-produced "Pendulum" amplifies
' bittersweet side beautifully, and when she sings "I dance feelings like they're spoken," it's as intimate as the more overtly autobiographical and anguished "Video Girl," a callback to her time dancing in clips for songs by
Ed Sheeran
Jessie J
. Here and throughout
, she excels at broadening her emotional palette as well as her musical one. She glides from the album's lows to its highs, juxtaposing pitch-black tracks like "Numbers," where chopped-up breaths, beats, and horror movie strings channel panic, loss, and anger, with radiant ones like "Closer," the poppiest
song yet (and one that
Barnett
produced herself). Elsewhere, the spacious, moody "Kicks" and "Lights On" recalls her EPs without rehashing them, reinforcing how seamlessly she made the leap to a grander scope.
' music was already so fully realized that
can't really be called the album where she came into her own. Rather, her music has been tended to since the "Water Me" days, and now it's flourishing. ~ Heather Phares