The FADER’s guide to FKA twigs

thefader.com:

After emerging over a decade ago, FKA twigs has become one of the music industry’s foremost iconoclasts, blurring the lines between singer, dancer, producer, visual artist, collaborator, actor, spokesperson, and activist.

But it’s her music that’s always been at the cutting edge of what the future holds. Across two studio albums and one mixtape, she’s created a space where her avant-garde vision can be buffed and primed into something that pushes the mainstream forward.

It makes sense that visionaries like Arca, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Dev Hynes, U.K. club pranksters Two Shell, and pop juggernaut The Weeknd have since rushed to collaborate.

Merely listening to twigs, however, is to miss half of her arsenal. She’s not just a singer but a doer: self-directing music videos and pushing her body to its limits (See: her 2019 video "Sad Day," for which she mastered the sword-art discipline wushu.