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| Young Turks | discogs.com |
A singular artistic statement, wrought from silver and blood.
M3LL155X was ranked seventh in my Top Ten Albums I Wrote About in 2016
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Clocking in at just under nineteen minutes, twigs doesn’t waste any time in making a dramatic statement. She deftly welds razor-sharp slices of sound together into impressionistic sketches of emotion.
Complementing her singular artistic voice, raw vocals have been chopped and refracted and jammed back together into a forceful and emotive new syntax.
At once frighteningly alien and devastatingly human, twigs is pushing the very boundaries of what can be called music — and we’re invited along for the ride.