“an unstoppable force of nature rolls out her enormously ambitious vision”
“One of the more famous passages from Shakespeare’s The Tempest is taken from the mouth of Caliban, an outcast and a cannibal whose speech only becomes poetic when he talks about his home, the magical island on which his rival characters have just landed. He becomes softened when describing the sounds and sweet airs that bring delight and won’t hurt you. It’s a butchered paraphrase, but he opens up”
“With limitlessly innovative songwriting and production, the cinema of twigs’ music has never been more affecting. Magdalene is not just on the vanguard of pop, it’s in a breathtaking class of its own.”
“MAGDALENE is FKA Twigs' finest work to date”
“In rebuilding herself after heartbreak, the artist has never sounded so human”
“If FKA twigs’s four-year absence has been cruel for fans of her idiosyncratic, multimedia talent, it’s been even worse for her. In 2017, her uncomfortably public relationship with Robert Pattinson ended, and she underwent surgery to remove painful fibroid growths from her uterus. Already struggling with the direction of her second album, she was left creatively sucker-punched. The opener, Thousand”
