FKA Twigs has shared the latest single from upcoming album ‘Eusexua’ – an avant-garde track called ‘Drums Of Death’. Check it out below.
The new single marks the third track to be shared from the artist’s new LP, which will be the long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s ‘Magdalene’ and set for release on January 24 via Young. You can pre-order it here.
It follows on from the album’s title track, which dropped back in September and came alongside a Jordan Hemingway-directed music video, and after last month’s ‘Perfect Strangers’, which featured cameos from Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Yves Tumor.
Unlike the first two singles, which took on more of a traditional dance-floor-inspired sound, ‘Drums Of Death’ sees Twigs team up with Koreless for a more unconventional sound.
“Hello, what you like? Do you wanna meet later? / Relax and ease your mind ’cause you work so much / I know what you like, and you’re my main character / I’m here anytime, you can call me up,” she sings amid the glitchy, futuristic instrumentation. Check it out below.
For FKA Twig fans, the track may feel familiar too, as both the music and the visuals were also previewed in the ‘Eusexua’ video.
The song was first formed by Koreless, who made the instrumentals during a flight to Berlin. Twigs would later join on the track, and collaborated on the song’s vocals with Tintin.
As aforementioned, ‘Eusexua’ will come as FKA Twigs’ first album since ‘Magdalene’, although the artist has gone on to share other music since then. In 2022 she shared the mixtape ‘Caprisongs’, and earlier this year, she dropped new material via the Two Shell duet, ‘Talk To Me’.
A press release defines ‘Eusexua’ as “a state of being. A feeling of momentary transcendence often evoked by art, music, sex, and unity. Eusexua can be followed by a state of bliss and feelings of limitless possibility. Also used to refer to: ‘The pinnacle of Human Experience’.”
The first single arrived after the former recipient of the Godlike Genius gong started to tease her new album on Discord, saying that while the songs won’t be techno tracks, they were inspired by a trip to Prague where she “fell in love” with the genre.
Late last year, she also confirmed that she was writing the album from scratch again after a hacker leaked dozens of demos.
While receiving her BandLab NME Award in 2022, the artist also told us about what to expect from new material, explaining that she was looking to expand her sound going forward, but in a way that meant she didn’t lose sight of her roots.
“It’s not going to change my ethos. I only make music that I want to make. But I don’t want to stay the same – that’s the kiss of death for an artist, a sidestep into nothingness. I always want to learn more and keep growing,” she said.
