FKA twigs - 'EUSEXUA' • DIY Magazine

FKA twigs’ sensual flow-state third studio album ‘EUSEXUA’ descended onto our ears in late January. Its central tenet is dynamic: “Eusexua - as a concept - is so incredibly dangerous, ‘cause once I think the human race realises they can constantly be on the path to ‘eusexua,’ everything kind of dismantles,” twigs told fellow British producer and singer Imogen Heap in an interview for Spotify.

‘EUSEXUA’, then, feels as if it outsizes the label of an album. Within her masterful project, twigs creates her own post-human, eusexua-pilled world. Inspired by summer raves in Prague back in 2022, she dials up the feelings she experienced - a powerful surge of euphoria and escapism - and creates a thrilling headrush of hits, drawing
on thrumming techno, dancefloor beats, and ear-splitting club pop.

Equally, the album doubles as performance art, as she proved during countless shows this summer. It’s a motion-ready record that can flood everywhere from Victoria Park to a wall- to-wall house party, stirring you with its racing, sledgehammer four-to-floor beats. The title track is, by all rights, a sensual overhaul - liberating, erotic and fully changed. Co-produced by Eartheater and Koreless, its amped-up sonics beam you into a supernatural state of feeling.

Inspired by summer raves in Prague back in 2022, twigs dials up the feelings she experienced and creates a thrilling headrush of hits.

Elsewhere, ‘EUSEXUA’ feels nimble, its tracks meandering and fizzing away. Created alongside the dancer’s 2024 performance art piece The Eleven, it captures your mind and emotions. ‘Perfect Stranger’ revives a retro pop punch, while the stuttered, clapping clangs of ‘Drums of Death’ transform into glitching, zipping vocals and beats - something you’d expect to hear on a song by 100 gecs, daine, or Frost Children. Throughout, her exceptional vocoder-laden vocals feel otherworldly as she crescendos over fragmented beats, proving herself as a top-level producer.

FKA twigs has long been known for her experimental style. The success of earlieralbums, 2014’s ‘LP1’ and 2019’s ‘MAGDALENE’, showcased the Londoner’s boundless talent, but with ‘EUSEXUA’, ‘Girl Feels Good’, she whips out a soft-sung mantra (“When a girl feels good, you’ll know”) atop twinkling synths; it’s something you wouldn’t be surprised to hear on a Madonna hit, and yet, ‘EUSEXUA’ feels entirely contemporary. Here, twigs proves, again, that she’s an outside innovator; a pop-star-level beatmaker.

Less than ten months on from its release, ‘EUSEXUA’ already feels like an underground classic. And on its emotional, closing ballad ‘Wanderlust’, twigs switches to a softer note, singing: “Album’s way too long though / I’d make it just the same / But with all the lyrics gone”. She’s whisked us through the runners’ high-style tunes, but now disarms herself, letting listeners all the way in. This final track feels like an admission, a closing credit reel to her vulnerable, powerful performance. As the minimal song plays out, she hands over some apt final lyrics: “It’s your choice to break or believe in it / I’ll be in my head if you need me”. One thing’s for sure: with ‘EUSEXUA’, FKA twigs has found her clarity.

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