EUSEXUA
One summer night in 2022, during a break from shooting *The Crow* reboot in Prague, FKA twigs found her way outside the city to a warehouse rave, where hundreds of strangers were dancing to loud, immersive techno. The experience snapped the English polymath (singer, dancer, songwriter, actor, force of nature) out of the intense brain fog she’d been stuck inside for years—so much so that she was moved to invent a word to describe the transcendent clarity, a portmanteau of “sex” and “euphoria” (which also sounds a bit like the Greek word used to celebrate a discovery: eureka!). *EUSEXUA*, twigs’ third studio album (and her first full-length release since her adventurous 2022 mixtape, *Caprisongs*), is not explicitly a dance record—more a love letter to dance music’s emancipating powers, channeled through the auteur’s heady, haunting signature style. The throbbing percussion from that fateful warehouse rave pulses through the record, warping according to the mood: slinky, subterranean trip-hop on the hedonistic “Girl Feels Good,” or big-room melodrama on the strobing “Room of Fools.” On the cyborgian “Drums of Death” (produced by Koreless, who worked closely alongside twigs and appears on every track), twigs evokes a short-circuiting sexbot at an after-hours rave in the Matrix, channeling sensations of hot flesh against cold metal as she implores you to “Crash the system...Serve cunt/Serve violence.” Intriguing strangers emerge from *EUSEXUA*’s sea of fog, all of them seeking the same thing twigs is—sticky, sweaty, ego-killing, rapturous catharsis.
Twigs’ third album brings club music into her sensual, supernatural world. It’s a masterful pop-star moment for the artist.
The singer’s third official album often sounds great and is undeniably polished, but it could use a little more sweat.
On ‘Eusexua’, the ever-experimental FKA twigs searches for transcendence in her own inimitable language – read the review
FKA twigs' vocal and musical power meet their most emotive selves throughout EUSEXUA's blissful world-building.
The singer crushes the system with love and techno beats in this thumping tribute to hedonism
The experimental U.K. dance-pop artist wanted to “transcend human form” with her new album. She nails it.
The latest record from the singer and dancer is rawly explicit; at times, it does wander around in vague search of melodies
For her third album, FKA Twigs is searching for a higher plane, a state of bliss – and she urges us to find it on the dancefloor
Eusexua doesn't just embrace the thrust of commercial dance, it subsumes it into the chromatic, honed prism of FKA twigs' artistry.
Coining a word to describe a particular state of euphoria, twigs effortlessly juggles left-field digitals and club pop tunes on album No 3
FKA twigs’s ‘Eusexua’ presents an artist learning to find strength in near-constant movement.
FKA Twigs' 'Eusexua' is a conceptual masterpiece that speaks to the heart and the head, the spirit and the body. These things are not separate from each other.
EUSEXUA by FKA twigs album review by Sam Franzini for Northern Transmissions. The UK multi-artist's LP drops on January 24 via Young/Atlantic
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