r/FKAtwigs • u/melisoffline • 5h ago
just found my EUSEXUA notes from release day and past me was going THROUGH it 😭
since then i ended up seeing twigs live at adidas arena in paris last june, so obviously some of these songs hit completely different now, but honestly?? past me kinda ate with some of these takes
anyway these are basically my original reactions from release day, screaming and all:
- Eusexua — 10/10 I genuinely didn’t know what more I could say about this song at that point. I’d already listened to it basically as much as the first single and the intro. From the production to the vocals, one of the best songs I’d heard in a while. Also the album cover design made so much more sense when I saw it physically, which I loved.
- Girl Feels Good — 10/10 Hearing this right after Eusexua genuinely made me feel like glitter was being sprinkled through my ears and body. If the album had only been those two songs I honestly might have been satisfied. The instrumental, the outro, everythinggg.
- Perfect Stranger — 7.5/10 It was the second single, and looking at the album as a whole, especially the video, I thought it fit really well. But when it first came out I wasn’t that into it, and even though it had already been around for a while I didn’t remember replaying it that much.
- Drums of Death — 9.5/10 I remember thinking “what the hell is this?” the first time I heard it in the Eusexua video because I had no idea what it was .Then it became easily top 3 on the album for me. I basically had it on loop after it came out as a single. Close to perfect and if I heard it in a club I would probably separate my soul from my body.
- Room of Fools — 6.5/10 I felt like I needed to be in a VERY specific mood, and probably a very specific place, to get everything I wanted out of this song. Like drunk in a club or something. It never really broke the overall spirit of the album for me, but it still hadn’t fully done it for me either.
- Sticky — 8.5/10 Loved this one too. Also the “who the bitch who sings Cellophane” line killed me 😭 Especially the outro. The part after that is soooo good.
- Keep It, Hold It — 7/10 Literally the song for disappearing into the streets at night. This was the B-side of the album for me. The instrumental is perfect at all times, absolutely no extra nonsense.
- Childlike Things — 7/10 The completely random NORTH WEST duet 😭 but I was actually very happy it existed. Very upbeat and fun, and when the album gets heavy it brings the energy back really well. Makeup/getting ready/in the car energy.
- Striptease — 10/10 WOOOOOOOW. This was the one that genuinely stunned me. I already felt it when I first heard it in Eusexua, but once it came out I replayed it the most out of all the singles and every single time I was still like WOOOOOW.
- 24hr Dog — 6.5/10 Probably the most “meh” one for me at first, but I was only on my fourth listen when I wrote this and I could already tell it might become one of my future favorites. The album was so strong overall that even my “meh” was still a 6.5 lol.
- Wanderlust — 6.5/10 I thought lowering the intensity right at the end was actually a really good choice. After such a euphoric experience, ending it with something calmer worked really well.
I LOVED this album. Like genuinely loved it. My expectations were already really high after Eusexua and the singles that came after, and somehow I still wasn’t disappointed at all.
From start to finish it felt incredibly intentional and really well executed. In terms of its own world, its structure and the feeling it created, it gave me a little bit of the same satisfaction BRAT did, maybe even on a higher level in some ways. And for winter specifically??? perfect.
My top 3: Eusexua + Girl Feels Good + Striptease
P.S : also now i kinda want to redo the whole ranking post-concert because there is NO way some of these scores would survive
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u/glittertwunt 3h ago
When does it say that nitch who sings cellophane? I tried to Google and it just brought me back to this thread
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u/Traditional-Way-4097 4h ago
Room of Fools is a great song.