{"id":298927,"date":"2025-11-18T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298927\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:43:08","slug":"fka-twigs-eusexua-afterglow-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298927\/","title":{"rendered":"FKA twigs: EUSEXUA Afterglow Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

FKA twigs<\/a> has never been more famous, but she\u2019s taking it in stride: \u201cI think that being famous is funny,\u201d she announces on her new song \u201cWild and Alone.\u201d For an artist who has reopened her wounds on heart-pummelling songs like \u201ccellophane,\u201d this is a rather breezy approach to fame. Over vocal samples typical of Jersey club\u2014 suspended as if in zero gravity, ghostly and uncanny\u2014she recruits pop\u2019s foremost comedian, PinkPantheress<\/a>, for a more light-hearted take on the themes she\u2019s often explored throughout her career, of crafting selfhood and warding off loneliness amid the clamor of fame.<\/p>\n

But this year\u2019s rise was not without its minor controversies. After the release of February\u2019s stellar, now Grammy-nominated EUSEXUA<\/a>, there was her rescheduled North American tour<\/a> due to her production team not obtaining the correct visa. Then, twigs faced further consternation for a defensive statement she posted on Discord<\/a>, decrying the \u201cparasocial nightmare\u201d of her fandom\u2019s response to the postponed shows. Then, in April, a snippet of her live keynote conversation for Resident Advisor<\/a> went viral, in which she asked: \u201cWhere are the thinkers?\u201d Her impromptu question wasn\u2019t the most well thought-out one (as many online pointed out, the thinkers are broke and tired!), but the proliferation of bad-faith takes it spawned did go some way to proving her point.<\/p>\n

It was in the midst of all this chaos that we got her most chaotic album rollout ever. The deluxe edition of EUSEXUA morphed into a full second album named Afterglow, which was announced onstage at Lowlands festival in August<\/a>. Three months later, on the day of Afterglow\u2019s release, twigs simultaneously shared a new, updated version of the original record (both are available on streaming services, confusingly, under the name EUSEXUA\u2014the new one with an altered cover that distorts twigs\u2019 eyes and ears). The updated version of EUSEXUA not only contains four new songs\u2014and a remix of the spiky ballad \u201cStriptease\u201d with added Eartheater<\/a>\u2014but removes original songs, and peppers the new ones throughout the tracklist. It\u2019s not quite a deluxe album, or a remix album, but a sort of reimagined shadow version of the original record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FKA twigs has never been more famous, but she\u2019s taking it in stride: \u201cI think that being famous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[776,88,216,777],"class_list":{"0":"post-298927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}