FKA TWIGS - PENDULUM

FKA Twigs is an empress of subtlety, a connoisseur of the barely tangible moments between pop music's satiating exhalations. The big reveals in her songs tend to hit with half the force of usual radio fare, yet they leave impressions that only grow more pronounced with time. Not since last year's bewitching "Water Me", though, has the London singer released a single as dedicated to nuance and will-o'-the-wisp sublimity as her latest, "Pendulum". With a rickety click-clack and some pin-prick textures, several layers of FKA Twigs' voice gingerly harmonize over reversed piano chords and the thump of a sluggish kick drum, sounding as if she is slowly settling into the mercurial landscape. Where "Water Me" and "Pendulum" diverge in their style and substance is in the latter's resounding chorus and bridge, when the music's detached and capricious elements finally converge into a hook that plays like a hymn to the patron saint of melancholic desire.

via Pitchfork

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SoundsLeann FloraMarch 25, 2019Comment