FKA twigs - In Time

FKA twigs has already mastered uneasy pop; abrasive, contorted, vapour-drenched screams that rocket skywards in a blur of fizzing dynamite. She’s already nailed the tightrope art of writing lyrics that teeter on the dangerous wafer-thin line separating upfront intimacy and sordid darkness, and she’s unquestionably one of the most innovative faces of this decade, too. In many ways, it wouldn’t just be easy for twigs to carry on creating songs like ‘Two Weeks’ and ‘Water Me’ - it would be sustaining exceptionally innovative form.

twigs, though, is a natural radical, and gathering together all of the threads she’s already mastered in a bunched fist, ‘In Time’ goes several steps further. “You’ve got a goddamn nerve,” she snarls, the diction laid bare, with no hint of the misted production that typically cloaked her debut album ‘LP1’. “I will be better / And we will be stronger” she lulls idealistically, elsewhere. There’s an awful lot of implicit meaning bubbling beneath the lava of this lyrically minimal song, and of all the songs on new EP ‘M3LL155X’ it also stands up as her most punchy, immediate veering off yet.