ART BRUT.

What is it like to feel pure nothingness but also pure focus, to feel so euphoric that you transcend form? Does FKA twigs’ latest album answer this question?

There are weeks or months where I feel dissatisfied with the music I listen to. I often feel as though I must be in conversation with music, that for me to truly appreciate songs for what they are and hear them, they must hear me as well. The trouble occurs when I am in that inexplicable mood where I long for something to creep towards me, to coil around me, to reach inside of me, to move me in unfamiliar ways. In this state I crave for music that makes me feel all that I have trouble describing to myself which cannot be sufficiently expressed by my usual outlets: talking, writing, masturbating. None of that is enough, and as a consequence I am left uncertain and distracted, trying to ignore the craving as I go about my day as usual.

FKA twigs’ latest album EUSEXUA, inspired by the techno rave scene of East Bloc, is not quite what most of whom have many years of raving under their belt, expected to hear to sonically depict the sensation of being so euphoric that one could transcend human form. I disagree with this, albeit to an extent...

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