Music videos were filmed for each of the four tracks and released on her YouTube channel. The album was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize and the award for Best Recording Package at the 2015 Grammy Awards.įKA Twigs (then known simply as Twigs) self-released her debut extended play, EP1, on Bandcamp on 4 December 2012. The album spawned three singles: ' Two Weeks', ' Pendulum' and 'Video Girl'. Upon release, LP1 received widespread critical acclaim, and placed high on several year-end critics' lists. Production for the album is handled by FKA Twigs herself, alongside Emile Haynie, Arca, Cy An, Devonté Hynes, Clams Casino, Paul Epworth, Sampha and Tic. The final sequence features a phalanx of dancers, as Twigs sings, “Why wait all week to hear gods talk, when you’ve got a front row to the stars?” – an empowering attitude that confirms the primacy of personal action over the empty twitter of an infantilising celebrity culture.LP1 is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter FKA Twigs, released on 6 August 2014 by Young Turks. The artwork really coheres through the final three tracks, “In Time”, “Mothercreep” and “Glass & Patron”, in which a faux-pregnant twigs herself gives birth, with breaking waters represented by multi-hued paints pouring down her legs, before she appears to pull multi-coloured ribbons from her vagina. The next sequence is “I’m Your Doll”, in which a 3D CGI Twigs, a sex-doll Twigs and the real Twigs switch confusingly around while a gazing male struggles to impose his desire on her/them.

It opens with the stalking, industrial synth pulse and skittering electro-percussive splashes of “Figure 8” – a vogueing reference, here personified by septuagenarian avant-garde fashion icon Michele Lamy, whose copiously bejewelled presence slowly hoves into view.

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