FKA Twigs-M3LL155X (2015)

FKA Twigs-M3LL155X (2015)

“There's no map to human behavior.”

Bjork

By: Ghost Writer

Just as it happens with my beloved Bjork, love FKA Twigs, or hate her, but is impossible to ignore her, hailed as one of the most surprising acts in recent years, British ex model FKA Twigs is back with an unsuspected new EP, her music is cutting edge as ever here, taking elements mainly from the worlds of Soul and R&B but also immersing in the disparate worlds of electronica and industrial, creating her very own particular musical universe unparalleled, with acts like Tricky, Bjork, M.I.A. or Massive Attack as only close sounding peers.

FKA Twigs sound experiments are quite amusing as she takes common R&B and takes it to really eerie territories, and in this M3LL155X she us definitely going to the extremes searching more for sound and atmospheres than ever, taking clue elements from bizarre electronics British masters like Aphex Twin and Burial, giving her music awesome out of this world characteristics like in the totally abstract arrangements in Figure 8, with its deeper than the ocean disjointed percussion and ice cold vocals.

In I'm Your Doll she is as fragile as ever, sounding like a lost girl in a hostile musical world she created for herself, a dark and deep forest of maniac sounds and noise of schizophrenic proportions, going to wild places even Bjork hasn't touched in dreams, FKA Twigs take us into something completely new and uncharted, achieving dense results that affect the listener in a sensorial way, her music is desperate and oppressive at times, but including some illuminating melody at moments, like In Time, the EP's most accessible moment, although it still sounds as a song conceived in the mind of a David Lynch with a Burial production and an accent on industrial strength, Lex Lugger like arrangement, but noisier.

Glass & Patron has a certain Kate Bush touch on FKA Twigs, that crystalline fragility and ethereal texture omnipresent, and that brutal beat programming that deviates the song from mainstream territory, and at the same time presenting some elements of danceable Electronica without losing its enigmatic qualities.

With so many parallel elements it might not be a complete surprise to hear some future collaboration of FKA with Tricky, as they inhabit the same kind of brown punk sonic nightmares full of a desperate combination of render a brutal moments like I'm the thrilling Mothercreep.

M3LL155X might be too short, but is also too powerful, showing here FKA sense of balance revealing here a too tense relationship between angelic and demonic, taking the fragility of her voice and placing it in the middle of a brutal universe that seems to be breaking apart, it might be a smart metaphor for our life in the modern world, an honest narration of a tortured soul in the middle of a post everything hell, she is a rebellious nonconformist capable of joining disparate elements into an astonishing coherent vision, it takes talent to condense a vision so unique, and I bet she is raising the bar too high for other experimentalists to try.