{"id":137805,"date":"2025-11-17T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/137805\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:42:09","slug":"our-review-of-her-album-eusexua-afterglow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/137805\/","title":{"rendered":"Our review of her album Eusexua Afterglow"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new takeoff just happened for FKA twigs with Eusexua Afterglow. The album was conceived as the direct sequel to Eusexua, released last January and nominated for \u201cBest Dance\/Electronic Album\u201d at the 2026 Grammy Awards. But what should we think of this record, crafted to be listened to at dawn after a rave party?<\/p>\n

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\t\tThe album cover of Eusexua Afterglow (2025) by FKA twigs.<\/p>\n

Eusexua Afterglow, an after party album crafted by FKA twigs<\/p>\n

With her new album, Eusexua Afterglow (2025), British singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer FKA twigs<\/a> delivers a fourth studio album fully calibrated for the afterparty. Eleven new electronic bursts extend the rave initiated by Eusexua, a record released last January and nominated for \u201cBest Dance\/Electronic Album\u201d at the 2026 Grammy Awards<\/a>. With forty minutes of conscious trance, this work stands out as a blazing record, a plunge into the post-party glow, into the pale light of the club\u2019s dawn. The album continues the erotic exploration of its predecessor, translating the emotions that arise in the wake of the storm \u2013 the rave. And it feels like a prolonged ecstasy.<\/p>\n

This sci-fi techno album flirts with the avant-garde pop so dear to the 37-year-old performer and taps into the full potential of contemporary electronic production. At times, one can almost hear the laments of an artificial intelligence facing its own desire, crashing into grainy bass lines and streaming synthetic layers. Highlights include Sushi \u2013 one of the best tracks of the year \u2013 Touch A Girl, St\u00e9r\u00e9o Boy \u2013 which features vocals reminiscent of Bj\u00f6rk \u2013 and Wild and Alone, a duet with PinkPantheress.<\/p>\n


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\nFKA twigs \u2013 Cheap Hotel (2025).<\/p>\n

A definitely erotic record<\/p>\n

FKA twigs has never treated desire as a mere motif. LP1 (2014) already championing a cyberpunk R\u2019n\u2019B crafted with Arca<\/a> and visually shaped by Jesse Kanda. There, sensuality seemed to press against the skin, ready to burst out into the world. With M3LL155X (2015), she immediately turned that energy into a manifesto, flipping the gaze on the female body to make it a tool of empowerment.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Magdalene took this dramaturgy even further, blending pain and ecstasy in a single breath. Eusexua Afterglow follows in that lineage. Eroticism here is no longer symbolic. It becomes a raw material, from lyrics to sounds \u2013 breath, piercing percussion, synths evoking bodies making love.<\/p>\n

The term Eusexua itself, which she links to that moment of transcendent clarity just before orgasm, captures this shift toward a more intense sensuality. Here, FKA twigs shapes desire like one might polish a relic.<\/p>\n


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\nFKA twigs \u2013 Predictable Girl (2025).<\/p>\n

A disconcerting album promotion<\/p>\n

While the album is a success, its promotion unfolded in strange and chaotic way. Shortly after the release of Eusexua, the singer teased a deluxe version. She revealed new tracks, then announced that she was \u201cpregnant\u201d with a new album, Afterglow, during a festival in the Netherlands on August 16th, 2025. And then, everything spiraled. It turned out this wasn\u2019t a deluxe version at all, but a completely new body of work featuring eleven previously unreleased tracks.<\/p>\n

At the same time, she uploaded a new version of Eusexua, where four original songs were replaced with new ones, including a remix featuring American artist Eartheater. In the end, Eusexua Afterglow premiered in Paris during Fashion Week\u2026 Even in her marketing, the British artist does things entirely her own way.<\/p>\n

Eusexua Afterglow (2025) by FKA twigs, available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new takeoff just happened for FKA twigs with Eusexua Afterglow. The album was conceived as the direct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,31157,85,46,65326],"class_list":{"0":"post-137805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fka-twigs","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-pinkpantheress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}