Album Review : FKA Twigs - M3LI55X

             

 

              FKA Twigs is an acquired taste. Many people can’t enjoy it and deem it as too weird and too depressing, while for the others her music is simply amazing and brave. Personally, my first time to get into her is when I am hearing “Water Me” and I am instantly get hooked. I find myself can connect to her emotional state and her music production is so great and unique. After that, I start to checking her music and her material is strong and uniquely her.

                M3LI55X is still as manic and mysterious as usual , clearly show to us that this is solely her artistic direction, not because the influence of her music producer. Boots (the main producer in Beyonce self-titled album) manage to give FKA Twigs what she wants. The production is notably crazier and more abrasive, closer to “Lights On” than to  “Two Weeks”.

                Start with “Figure 8”, a great opening for the album in which she describes her confidence and her love to herself. What I love is the “Gylgas final battle sounding” synth and her rap. “Glass & Patron” still sounds good and fresh, it’s also nice to see a more upbeat song from her. The biggest surprise and the best track in this mini album probably goes to “I’m Your Doll “. It perfectly shows her anger and her hopelessness at how she’s only being used by a man, and the usage of real drum in the end is great too.

                The only disappointing track is “In Time”, maybe the most generic song in FKA Twigs’s standard. The usage of autotune is annoying and eclipsed her vocals. However, it’s still pretty decent and probably I will find myself play that song again. M3LI55X is a great EP, a not so surprising comeback for FKA Twigs but it’s still cohesive, more darker in lyrical subject, and these material still hold the high quality of FKA Twigs’s previous materials.

Recommended Tracks :

* Glass & Patron

* I'm Your Doll

* Figure 8

4 / 5