From the opening moments of ‘How’s That’, FKA Twigs and producer Arca cast a cloud of noir onto a stage as broad as it is deep with a firmly regal figure swaying around the centre point. Committing to a pace akin to severely labored-breathing, EP2 holds an enchanting quality that shrinks me down in my headphones while physically drawing. Twigs' second EP, EP2, was released on Young Turks on 10 September 2013. It was produced by FKA twigs and Arca. Pitchfork gave EP2 a rating of 8/10.

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Have You Heard? Following Miley Cyrus’ performance at the VMAs (not to mention her latest video clip), Kanye West is (apparently) planning to rework the certified banger “Black Skinhead” from his most recent album Yeezus with the assistance of the previously very famous but now über-famous 20-year-young Cyrus. After much fanfare regarding her recent work, you’re most probably aware of the particulars and what it means for popular music, the misappropriation of African-American culture by an enormously rich white girl, the social/cultural ramifications, and so forth.

But does this mean that pop music — in its current incarnation — is finished? If so, one could actually see it as a rather fitting and natural end to Western popular music — the unashamed, egotistical alpha male meets the Miley, a surreal and miasmic being so unshackled from the checks of reality and whose attempts at cultural re-appropriation are so misplaced and ludicrous that it forces us to sit and ponder. After all, where can we go after Miley? After Kanye vs. Miley.gif? What more can pop music do?

Here, we turn to FKA twigs for a different take on the “pop” norm with her latest release, the obscurely and evasively titled EP2. While her debut EP was enjoyable enough, one could sense something was missing. It didn’t really bring anything dramatically new to the table, and it certainly didn’t help that anyone dabbling in mildly experimental pop music with a reliance on airy, angelic female vocals and repetitive, even cyclical percussive rhythms had to deal somehow with the explosion of Claire Boucher last year. But while FKA twigs’ voice, a delicate and sensual soprano, felt stitched and dully suspended above a set of intricate but ultimately uninteresting instrumental tracks in some generic R&B/pop chanteuse role, this EP sees her not only discarding that role, but also deconstructing and reworking it.

FKA twigs teams this time with Arca (Alejandro Ghersi) — the swagged-out Venezuelan producer who provided production support on Yeezus and recently released an alarmingly good mixtape (&&&&&) — whose presence on this release cannot be understated. His manipulation of future hip-hop simulacra provides an accompaniment both minimal and suitable for FKA twigs’ sparse vocal phrases, which are in turn electronically manipulated to provide a virtual ensemble — one part soaked in reverb, one part pitched up to provide detached harmonies over Arca’s clanking, half-identifiable, part-evanescent, part-industrial beats.

With the vocalist’s instrumental relationship to the producer now changed, the lyrical emphasis shifts too, as FKA twigs is content to strip back the complexity of her lyrics to better fit with the strange textures shaped by Arca. It’s a difference apparent not only between her first EP and this one, but also between herself and her contemporaries. The impressive vocal efforts of Grimes are what FKA twigs is most frequently compared to, but on this particular EP, it’s possible this is due more to range and timbre than to lyrical style and delivery. It soon becomes apparent that Arca and FKA twigs have carved out a viable and individual collaborative sound — the first two tracks following on naturally from FKA twigs’ first EP with noticeable input from Arca, and the latter two highlighting Arca in the driving seat, particularly “Ultraviolet,” with its nasty pitch-shifted mid-section vocal that conjures Salem as much as it does James Ferraro.

Of course, I wouldn’t argue that Arca’s eerie transformation of vocal samples from FKA twigs on “Water Me” are altogether unheard of before today. Since choral composers moved away from Gregorian chant, people have been continually “radicalizing” quite specific developments in all technical areas that are then glossed over relatively quickly. What’s probably more affecting, specifically for this release and in line with other remarkable pieces, is when those techniques aid in the creation of a sound that transcends simple technical innovation and evokes something within the listener that they recognize as very similar to what the artist intended; some kind of communicative relationship — be it blunt or abstract, sympathetic or coddling — is the hallmark of artistry, a reflection of what discerns the innovators from the communicators.

And this communication seems tied to how music of this form has spread with the assistance of this newly democratized internet. Besides missing the point of a youth culture free to explore the extremities of subcultures, it’s far too easy to mock the Tumblrsphere, to condemn it as lacking in some virtue only attainable by a more high-brow, bourgeois approach. The world of Tumblr probably wouldn’t give a shit what (they may or may not interpret as) some stiff from half a century ago thought of their art. It doesn’t really matter whether or not the music lumped together as “post-internet” or New Aesthetic is “redeemable;” once that artistic handle is applied, it sticks, and it’s confrontational, a trait undeniably attractive to youth concerned with a degree of self-expression. In this way, the approach is not too far from the “radicals” of the 50s, the 60s, from every rebellious revolution from the past. Just like their cultural forebears, current agitators face criticism concurrent to praise.

Arca and FKA twigs aren’t self-proclaimed representatives of this phase or shift in experimental popular music, but they are symptomatic of it — of what can make the complicated and convoluted craft of the singer-songwriter-producer enjoyable and relevant in a modern world overwhelmingly dense with competition and experimentation. In this regard, EP2 is a refreshing and remarkably concise collaborative effort, showing that, given the right push, FKA twigs is more than capable of crafting an environment that is stimulating on both aesthetic and intellectual levels. So don’t waste your valuable time soaking up Cyrus’ minders’ sensationalist plotting or thinking about how it might melt the establishment’s preconceptions, or even if that matters. Instead, FKA twigs. Get on it.

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EP1 is the debut extended play (EP) by English singer FKA Twigs. It was independently released in vinyl format on 4 December 2012. The EP was re-released under the Young Turks label in Japan packaged with LP1 and as a standalone product in October 2016. On December 16, 2016, EP1 officially became available to stream and buy on all music services.^[1][2][3] It had also been repressed on 12-inch vinyl and re-released by Young Turks the same day. The vinyl re-issue originally went unavailable on Amazon within less than a month, later coming back in stock on February 19, 2017.

Music videos[edit]

EP1 has a music video for every song appearing on the EP. The videos were directed by Grace Ladoja and FKA Twigs and released between July and December 2012.^[4]

'Weak Spot' is part one of four music videos. The video was released on 5 December 2012. The music video consists of a computer generated head. The visuals were made by Grace Ladoja, YouTuber rossisbudda, and FKA Twigs.^[5]

'Ache' is the part two of four music videos. The video was released on 8 August 2012. The music video consists of a male actor in a head suit.^[6]

'Breathe' is part three of four music videos. It was released on 5 December 2012. It was the last music video released from EP1. The video consists of FKA Twigs vandalizing a car, scratching the paint, and smashing the windows.^[7]

'Hide' is part four of the four music videos. The video was released on 10 July 2012 and was the first music video to be released from EP1. The video consists of twigs wearing nothing but a mesh bra and a red anthurium flower between her legs. It is labeled as 'age-restricted' by YouTube.^[8]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by FKA Twigs.

Personnel[edit]

Credits adapted from the liner notes of EP1.^[9]

• FKA Twigs – vocals, production
• Tic - production

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References[edit]

1. ^http://www.spin.com/2016/12/fka-twigs-breakthrough-ep1-is-now-available-to-stream-for-the-first-time/
2. ^'LP1'. FKA Twigs. Young Turks. 2014. YTCD118J.CS1 maint: others (link)
3. ^'LP1'. FKA Twigs. Young Turks. 2014. YTCD118J.CS1 maint: others (link)
4. ^YouTube
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9. ^'EP1'. twigs. Self-released. 2012. TWIGS001.CS1 maint: others (link)

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