CAPRISONGS

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AlbumJan 14 / 202217 songs, 48m 10s
Alternative R&B
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7.8 / 10

The singer’s new mixtape is a playful and adventurous flex, full of errant, shapeshifting compositions that flirt with choral music and Afrobeats, schoolyard chants and squeak-rapping.

8 / 10

After the emotional toll of making 2019's ‘Magdalene’ this varied collection shows a new side to the once unattainable star

7 / 10

FKA twigs expands her collection of calling cards on the dreamily constructed Caprisongs mixtape

Tahliah Barnett is enjoying her time in the sun on this new mixtape - and who can blame her?

7.9 / 10

The British singer trades in fragility for strength on her latest and most collaborative project.

Review: FKA Twigs' 'Caprisongs'

We find twigs experimenting not with, say, textures or song structure, but with dipping her toes into the mainstream.

Given time and careful attention, this new mixtape unfurls to reveal the richest and catchiest melodies twigs has written so far

"You are experiencing the most powerful transit right now," an astrologer tells FKA twigs near the end of Caprisongs, a mixtape named for her sun sign and the time of year when it was released.

8 / 10

FKA twigs has been known to fashion herself into an art object. She was the focus of protracted closeups in her earliest music videos, calli...

8.0 / 10

FKA twigs has come back to herself. Her critically acclaimed sophomore album, MAGDALENE, seemed to break something in her—the pain she endured from fibroid tumors in her uterus inspired much of the record, as did her very public breakup with actor Robert Pattinson.

7 / 10

"I wanted to die, I’m just being honest", confesses FKA twigs on her latest record. After a gruelling admission to being abused by Shia

The left-field singer makes a bid for the mainstream with hook-centric pop that centres on self-knowledge not trauma

8 / 10

FKA Twigs might be having the most fun she's ever had on Caprisongs, a vivid, compulsive new mixtape from a singular artist

Darkness turns to light in Tahliah Barnett’s follow-up to 2019 LP Magdalene but, even so, it’s an adventurous but undercharged effort missing hooks and cohesion

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3.7 / 5

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