Album Review: EUSEXUA Afterglow by FKA twigs

Less than a year after its Mercury Prize-nominated predecessor, FKA twigs refuses to let the club lights come up on EUSEXUA Afterglow. Initially conceived as a deluxe edition to EUSEXUA, ...Afterglow instead plunges us deeper into the club's subconscious on this strobe-bleached record; a palpable evocation of fog machine air and ultraviolet lights. Where EUSEXUA toyed with contrasting tempo, ...Afterglow feels happier to embrace the recession pop tradition: Love Crimes simultaneously embodies the imposing noughties thump of Britney's Work Bitch and the cathedralic 90s synths of Adamski's Killer.

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In an interview with Rolling Stone, FKA twigs mused on the burst of inspiration and creativity that follows an album release. It’s a surge, a pulse; an epiphany that a work isn’t finite but fathomless. That flow state underscored twigs’ atomized club music masterstroke ‘EUSEXUA ' and informs companion album ‘EUSEXUA Afterglow ‘.

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For an album whose title suggests a comedown from its predecessor's euphoric high, the opening track of Eusexua Afterglow goes surprisingly hard. Backed by a relentless 4/4 throb, the fleeting "Love Crimes" finds FKA twigs equating corporal pleasure with mortality: "Your body's a death trap/Precious like a teardrop. " She describes a man's "love" as "venom" on the glitchy "Hard," and tells him his touch is "hurting" her on "Touch a Girl.

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