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FKA Twigs Explores Herself in 'Eusexua'

The tracklist includes 11 songs, including "Childlike Things," a duet with Kanye West's daughter North West, who sings a verse in Japanese praising Jesus.

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Famous electronic musicians also took part in the recording of "Eusexua": Nicholas Jaar worked on "Keep It, Hold It", Dylan Brady from 100 gecs on "Striptease", DJ Sasha on the title track of "Eusexua". Stuart Price, who has collaborated with Madonna and The Killers, had a hand in "Wanderlust". And G-Dragon from Big Bang is listed as the author of "Drums of Death" - the track samples G-Dragon's song "One of a Kind". In 2022, during a break from filming "The Crow" in Prague, FKA Twigs went to a rave and was so inspired by techno that she invented a word for the almost transcendental euphoria that can take hold on the dance floor or during sex - eusexua (sex + euphoria). Eusexua is, as the artist explained, the moment before orgasm.

The influence of club music in "Eusexua" is really felt. It combines different shades of electronics with both trip-hip and trap beats. There are ballads about love and passion, noise experiments, and more understandable r'n'b in the spirit of Capricorns. On "Eusexua" you can hear echoes of trance, breakbeat and crisp experimental pop music in the spirit of Bjork and Sophie. Some compositions both spiritually and musically refer to Madonna from the period of the great "Ray of Light", especially "Girl Feels Good". By the way, it was on this track that Marius DeVries, who closely collaborated with Madonna in the 90s, worked. And the musical ideologist of another Madonna album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" Stuart Price took part in the creation of the final "Wanderlust".

The material is primarily produced by Koreless, a British electronic producer who has previously worked with FKA Twigs on the album “Magdalene” (2019) and the mixtape “Caprisongs” (2022). He seems to cast a fog over each song, an impenetrable motif that dissipates closer to the moments of beat rearrangement.

Twigs spends most of the album sharing with us how to enjoy absolute freedom, unity within oneself, and bodily movement.