FKA twigs surprise-releases
Electronic musician suddenly released both a five-track EP and 16-minute video, featuring Michele Lamy, on Thursday
Hearing about album releases weeks or months in advance is starting to feel like an artefact from the distant past.
Dr Dre only gave fans a six-day warning before he premiered new album Compton on Apple Music last week, and now it’s electronic musician FKA twigs’ turn.
On Friday morning twigs suddenly put out new five-track EP M3LL155X, after announcing its release on social media on Thursday evening. The EP features two previous singles: Glass & Patron, which came out in March as part of this year’s YouTube’s Music Awards, and Figure 8, which DJ Zane Lowe premiered on his Beats 1 radio show on August 3.
A 16-minute video accompanies the EP, too. Fans will recognise twigs’ fake pregnancy belly and voguing backing dancers from the Glass & Patron video, but elsewhere this new video includes scenes in which twigs is animated as a sex doll and runs through a dance routine wearing double denim. Artist and RIck Owens muse Michele Lamy also features in the video’s opening sequence.
M3LL155X was released by Young Turks records.
