LP1 (FKA twigs album)

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LP1
FKA twigs - LP1.png
Studio album by FKA twigs
Released 6 August 2014 (2014-08-06)
Recorded 2013–14
Genre
Length 40:46
Label Young Turks
Producer
FKA twigs chronology
EP2
(2013)EP22013		 LP1
(2014)		 M3LL155X
(2015)M3LL155X2015
Singles from LP1
  1. "Two Weeks"
    Released: 24 June 2014
  2. "Pendulum"
    Released: 29 July 2014
  3. "Video Girl"
    Released: 13 October 2014

LP1 is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter FKA twigs, released on 6 August 2014 by Young Turks. FKA twigs collaborated with several producers on the album, including Arca, Emile Haynie, Devonté Hynes, Paul Epworth and Clams Casino.

LP1 received widespread critical acclaim upon release, and placed high on several year-end critics' lists. The album spawned three singles: "Two Weeks", "Pendulum" and "Video Girl". The album was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize and the award for Best Recording Package at the 2015 Grammy Awards.

Background

FKA twigs (then known simply as twigs) self-released her debut extended play, EP1, on Bandcamp on 4 December 2012.[3] Music videos were filmed for each of the four tracks and released on her YouTube channel.[4][5] On 6 August 2013, The Guardian profiled FKA twigs for their "New Band of the Day" feature, describing her as "[t]he UK's best example to date of ethereal, twisted R&B."[6]

FKA twigs's second extended play, EP2, was released through the Young Turks record label on 17 September 2013.[7] It was produced by FKA twigs and Arca.[8] In December 2013, she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2014, and was chosen by Spotify for their Spotlight on 2014 list.[9][10] FKA twigs was featured on Billboard's 14 Artists to Watch in 2014.[11]

Singles

The lead single from LP1, "Two Weeks", was released on 24 June 2014 as a digital download and on 29 July 2014 as a 12-inch single, the latter featuring the song "Pendulum" as a B-side.[12][13] The music video was directed by Nabil Elderkin and premiered on 24 June 2014.[14]

"Pendulum" was released digitally as the album's second single on 30 July 2014.[15] The self-directed music video for the song premiered on 14 January 2015 and depicts FKA twigs tied up with her own hair.[16]

The album's third and final single, "Video Girl", was sent to contemporary hit radio in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2014.[17] The accompanying music video was directed by Kahlil Joseph and premiered on 29 October 2014. The black-and-white video depicts FKA twigs dancing for a prisoner on death row, and features a cameo appearance from rapper Travis Scott.[18][19]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 86/100[20]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars[21]
The A.V. Club A−[22]
Clash 8/10[23]
Entertainment Weekly A[24]
The Guardian 4/5 stars[25]
The Independent 5/5 stars[26]
NME 8/10[27]
Pitchfork Media 8.8/10[28]
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars[29]
Spin 9/10[30]

LP1 received rave reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 86, based on 38 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[20] Miles Raymer of Entertainment Weekly stated, "A singular kind of diva who asserts herself subtly, twigs sings in a near whisper that often threatens to blend in with the instruments behind it. But she exerts enough of a magnetic pull to lure listeners into some challenging territory".[24] Christopher Hooton of The Independent wrote that "while sultry, drug-addled R&B is an increasingly crowded genre, Twigs takes a hammer to the kind that The Weeknd made famous and plays in the rubble." Hooton continued, "FKA Twigs emerges the high priestess of R&B's latest corruption, and the world will kneel at the altar."[26] Kyle Fowle of The A.V. Club commended FKA twigs for "manag[ing] to craft a cohesive aesthetic that draws on modern R&B and electronic while also remaining inventive", concluding, "Few debuts possess such control and ambition all in one; LP1 is the rare album that manages to sound both lived in and completely futuristic."[22] AllMusic's Heather Phares noted the album contains "a lusher sound that's more accessible, and more overtly R&B, than FKA Twigs' earlier work but maintains its ethereal sensuality", adding that "FKA Twigs' music was already so fully realized that LP 1 can't really be called Barnett coming into her own; rather, her music has been tended to since the 'Water Me' days, and now it's flourishing."[21]

Jonathan Zwickel of Spin described the album as "unconventional stuff, drug-like, elemental and extraterrestrial" and opined, "In its menacing incandescence, LP1 sounds like nothing else in the world right now."[30] Pitchfork Media's Philip Sherburne praised LP1 as a "huge album" and a "monumental debut", while writing that "FKA twigs is not a masterful lyricist, at least not yet; some of her couplets feel clunky, like she's grasping in the dark for rhymes and coming up with the objects closest to hand [...] But when she zeroes in on the essence of a thing, she hits hard."[28] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian viewed the album as "a singular piece of work in an overcrowded market", and expressed that it "has its flaws [...] but you leave it convinced that FKA Twigs is an artist possessed of a genuinely strong and unique vision, one that doesn't need bolstering with an aura of mystique."[25] Hazel Sheffield of the NME commented that the album "impresses with its futuristic vision of R&B" and remarked that FKA twigs's "pervading sense of control and commitment to her art proves that Twigs is set on building the sound of the future all by herself."[27] Felicity Martin of Clash stated, "Fragile, heavenly and utterly compelling; this debut paves the way for boundaries-pushing pop. This is music that shatters you with a single tap."[23] Rolling Stone's Julianne Escobedo Shepherd found the album to be "far more substantial" than FKA twigs's two previously released EPs, adding that her "deconstructed shards of U.K. grime and garage land heavier, while elegiac vocals soften the songs without blunting their edge."[29]

Accolades

On 19 August 2014, LP1 was included at number 87 on Pitchfork Media's list of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far.[31] The album was shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize.[32] It was also nominated for Best Recording Package at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.[33] At the end of the year, LP1 was voted the fifth best record of 2014 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by The Village Voice.[34]

Publication Rank List
The A.V. Club 6 The 20 Best Albums of 2014[35]
Clash 1 Top 40 Albums of 2014[36]
CMJ 2 The 30 Best Albums Of 2014[37]
Complex 10 The 50 Best Albums of 2014[38]
Cosmopolitan 18 The 20 Best Albums of 2014[39]
The Daily Telegraph 17 Best 50 Albums of 2014[40]
Drowned in Sound 15 50 Favourite Albums of 2014[41]
Entertainment Weekly 9 10 Best Albums of 2014[42]
Fact 16 The 50 Best Albums of 2014[43]
The Guardian 3 The Best Albums of 2014[44]
The Huffington Post Unranked The 23 Best Albums of 2014[45]
Mojo 9 50 Best Albums of 2014[46]
musicOMH 5 Top 100 Albums of 2014[47]
NME 21 Top 50 Albums of 2014[48]
Paste 35 The 50 Best Albums of 2014[49]
Pitchfork Media 2 The 50 Best Albums of 2014[50]
PopMatters 8 The 80 Best Albums of 2014[51]
Q 8 Top 50 Albums of 2014[52]
The Quietus 11 Albums of the Year 2014[53]
Rolling Stone 16 50 Best Albums of 2014[54]
Slant Magazine 7 The 25 Best Albums of 2014[55]
Spin 21 The 50 Best Albums of 2014[56]
Stereogum 9 The 50 Best Albums of 2014[57]
Time 1 Top 10 Best Albums of 2014[58]
Time Out London 7 The 30 Best Albums of 2014[59]
Uncut 4 The Top 75 Albums of the Year[60]
Under the Radar 13 Top 140 Albums of 2014[61]
Vulture 15 The 32 Best Pop Albums of 2014[62]

Commercial performance

LP1 debuted at number 16 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 4,051 copies in its first week.[63] In the United States, the album debuted at number 30 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 10,370 copies.[64] As of August 2015, the album has sold 77,000 copies in the United States.[65]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Preface"   FKA twigs FKA twigs 1:46
2. "Lights On"  
  • FKA twigs
  • Arca
  • Tic
 Arca 4:24
3. "Two Weeks"  
  • Haynie
  • FKA twigs[a]
 4:07
4. "Hours"  
4:35
5. "Pendulum"  
  • Epworth
  • FKA twigs
 4:58
6. "Video Girl"  
  • FKA twigs
  • Haynie
  • Haynie
  • FKA twigs[a]
 3:47
7. "Numbers"  
  • FKA twigs
  • Sampha
 3:43
8. "Closer"  
  • FKA twigs
  • Tic
3:45
9. "Give Up"  
  • FKA twigs
  • Haynie
  • Haynie
  • Arca[a]
 4:17
10. "Kicks"  
  • FKA twigs
  • Cy An[a]
 5:24
Total length:
 40:46
Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of LP1.[68]

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  • FKA twigs – vocals (all tracks); instruments (track 1); production (tracks 1, 5, 7, 8, 10); bass arrangement, string arrangements (track 2); additional drums (tracks 2, 6); additional production (tracks 3, 6); Tempest (tracks 3, 7); keyboards (track 5); drums (tracks 5, 8, 10); bass (track 7); synths (track 10); design
  • Andrew Aged – guitar (track 2)
  • Daniel Aged – upright bass (track 2); additional keyboards (track 10)
  • Arca – additional vocals (track 2); production (tracks 2, 4); synth (track 3); additional programming (tracks 3, 4); instruments (track 4); additional production, additional sounds, programming (track 9)
  • Clams Casino – production (track 4)
  • Cy An – additional drum edits, keyboards (track 5); additional programming (track 6); piano (tracks 6, 10); additional production, drums (tracks 8, 10); synths (track 10)
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Paul Epworth – drums, guitar, keyboards, piano, production (track 5)
  • Emile Haynie – drums, instruments (tracks 3, 9); production, recording (tracks 3, 4, 6, 9); additional drums, Mellotron, synths (track 4)
  • LJ Howe – bass guitar (track 6)
  • Devonté Hynes – guitar, production (track 4)
  • Joseph Hartwell Jones – vocal recording (tracks 2, 3, 9, 10); additional vocal recording (track 4); engineering (track 5); additional engineering (track 6)
  • Jesse Kanda – imagery
  • Phil Lee – design
  • Lucki Eck$ – demon voice (track 1)
  • Sampha – drums, piano, production, synths (track 7)
  • Tic – additional drums (track 2); guitar (tracks 2, 8); additional production, drums (track 8)
  • David Wrench – mixing

Charts

Release history

Region Date Format Edition Label Ref.
Japan 6 August 2014 CD Standard Hostess [66]
Australia 8 August 2014
Young Turks [90][91]
Germany
  • CD
  • LP
  • digital download
  • Young Turks
  • XL
 [92][93][94]
LP + 7" Limited deluxe [95]
Ireland
  • CD
  • digital download
 Standard Young Turks [96][97]
France 11 August 2014 [98][99]
United Kingdom
  • CD
  • LP
  • digital download
 [100][101][102]
LP + 7" Limited deluxe [103]
United States 12 August 2014
  • CD
  • digital download
 Standard XL [104][105]
Australia 15 August 2014 LP Standard Young Turks [106]
France 18 August 2014 [107]
LP + 7" Limited deluxe [108]
United States 25 August 2014 LP Standard XL [109]
LP + 7" Limited deluxe [110]

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