FKA Twigs Goes Even Deeper Into the Groove

The experimental U.K. dance-pop artist wanted to "transcend human form" with her new album. She nails it.

- Julyssa Lopez

What exactly is the feeling of losing yourself on the dance floor? So often, it's tied up in jubilation, in sweat, in communion with people. And if you present the question to FKA Twigs, the British polymath who has made a career as a left-of-center experimentalist, there's also the sensation of thorough physical abandonment - a complete, joyful extinction of self, surrendered in the dark.

Throughout her unpredictable new album, Eusexua, Twigs disappears into the deepest corners of the club world. She mashes up techno beats, house production, and unforgiving industrial tones, creating a space that she's described as "so euphoric" that one could "transcend human form." Twigs appears as a kind of amorphous, alien-like creature, slipping in between the tracks and finding a new version of herself each time.