FKA Twigs has shared her new single ‘Perfect Stranger’, alongside a music video that features cameos from Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Yves Tumor. Check it out below.
‘Perfect Stranger’ is the latest single from Twigs’ upcoming album ‘EUSEXUA‘ – the long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s ‘Magdalene’ – which will be released on January 24 via Young. You can pre-order it here.
Last month, the singer shared the album’s title track and its Jordan Hemingway-directed music video. Now, she’s given fans a second taste of the LP – with another video helmed by Hemingway.
An intoxicating ode to fleeting relationships, Twigs sings: “I don’t know the name of the town you’re from/Your star sign or the school you failed/I don’t know and I don’t care,” while testing out roles as a half of different couples. Elsewhere in the video are appearances from Fleabag‘s Waller-Bridge and Yves Tumor. Check it out below.
While ‘EUSEXUA’ will serve as FKA Twigs’ first album since ‘Magdalene’, the artist has gone on to share other music since then. In 2022 she shared the mixtape ‘Caprisongs’, and earlier this year, she dropped new material via the Two Shell duet, ‘Talk To Me’.
A press release defines ‘EUSEXUA’ as: a state of being. A feeling of momentary transcendence often evoked by art, music, sex, and unity. Eusexua can be followed by a state of bliss and feelings of limitless possibility. Also used to refer to: ‘The pinnacle of Human Experience’.”
The first single arrived after Twigs teased her new album on Discord, saying that while the songs won’t be techno tracks, they were inspired by a trip to Prague where she “fell in love” with the genre. Late last year, she also confirmed that she was writing the album from scratch again after a hacker leaked dozens of demos.
Last month, she teased a further two tracks from the album during a performance at London Fashion Week.
FKA Twigs was crowned as the recipient of the Godlike Genius gong at the BandLab NME Awards in 2022. At just 34, she became the youngest-ever winner of the prize. “I am so proud to be the first Black female artist to have been honoured, still baby-faced, and inspired as hell. Here’s to the next decade of making art and music,” she said at the time.
Back then, she told us about what to expect from new material, explaining that she was looking to expand her sound going forward, but in a way that meant she didn’t lose sight of her roots.
“It’s not going to change my ethos. I only make music that I want to make. But I don’t want to stay the same – that’s the kiss of death for an artist, a sidestep into nothingness. I always want to learn more and keep growing,” she said.
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