Where the electronics once dissipated into the ether, now they come roaring back in blasts of xenomorph hisses and core-of-the-Earth rumbles. The most striking quality of the EP is that she went even further to the pop and electronic extremes so that everything - most significantly, her voice - feels like it’s in stark relief. But M3LL155X is when her ability to make an experimental soundscape truly merged with her ability to make a dope fucking song. LP1 was frequently impressive and enjoyable, and occasionally great with its futuresex alien sounds gone pop. Though I was a fan of her two EPs, they certainly seemed to register on the Yngwie Malmsteen spectrum, where the music is more impressive than it is great or enjoyable. And we know that now thanks to twigs’ beautifully jarring new M3LL155X EP, which had production from Boots on four of the five tracks.įKA twigs has been a critical darling pretty much since the moment she emerged in 2012, but it always seemed like the breathless praise may have had more to do with the visuals, her former video girl narrative and the feminist framing of it all than the actual music. It might not be music for the masses, but - to paraphrase *NSYNC - this might be pop.įKA twigs is not overrated. Silent Shout is our recurring roundup of the latest in alt-pop.

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