Listen to tracks from FKA twigs, Soccer Mommy, Mustafa and more.
Dear listeners,
Overhead fluorescent lighting. Inoffensively gray waiting room chairs. A finger mechanically clicking the same keyboard key over and over in a strangely hypnotic rhythm. These are all things I will never look at quite the same after seeing the surreal video for FKA twigs’ latest single, “Eusexua.”
For years now I’ve been awaiting the follow-up to twigs’ ambitious, shape-shifting and deeply moving 2019 album, “Magdalene.” Last week, she finally revealed its release date (Jan. 24, 2025) and its title: “Eusexua,” a word she coined to describe a sensual state of euphoria. Much like the haircut she sports in the title track’s music video — a kind of architectural, high-fashion skullet? — this is something that can really only be pulled off by FKA twigs.
Even if “Eusexua” isn’t your vibe, though, I hope you’ll find something in this collection of new music — culled from the past few weeks of our Friday Playlists — that will fill you with such an unfamiliar type of joy that you have to invent a word to describe it. We’ve got retro-tinged country (from Margo Price and Billy Strings), a bit of celestial folk (from the Kentucky singer-songwriter Joan Shelley) and even some good old-fashioned indie-rock (from a perennial favorite of mine, Soccer Mommy).
String some lights up and change the course of time,
Lindsay
Listen along while you read.
1. FKA twigs: “Eusexua”
Driven by a persistent, skittering beat, this track finds twigs singing entirely in her vaporous upper register, as if she’s grasping skyward at a higher state of being. “I was on the edge of something greater than before,” she sings in the poignant closing moments — hopefully a harbinger of what’s to come on her upcoming third LP.
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