LP1

Assholes. You all love to complain about how the list is 99% British indie rock, jangle pop, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, Rolling Stones, Morrissey, well here's some diversity for you. Experimental electronic pop music from one of the biggest alternative pop stars in decades, and you don't listen to her, she's "hipster bullshit" "unlistenable" "stop pretending to like this" screw off. Some of you like Bjork, right? Here's this generation's Bjork. Here's production from Arca, a legendary producer right before she got famous, who got cosigned by Bjork because of this album. Here's a group of unique love songs that don't sound like anything you've heard before, and you never will again. And you're not paying any fucking attention. You don't give her the respect she deserves. This absolutely needs to be in the 1001 Albums, just to force you all to listen to this. This needs to be heard.

Did I rate Exile on Main St a 4 yesterday and this album that I have never heard before, also a 4? Oh yes! I grew up on classic rock and can still appreciate beautiful music. One thing I have learned from this project is that I adore dream pop. I guess it's not a stretch since one of my favorite artists is Tori Amos. I can hear a lot of her soaring vocal influence in this. Ms. twigs can sing!

One of the worst things my ears have ever subjected to and I have a screaming one year old baby.

I'm digging the ambitious sound to the production. A bit too polished for my tastes. Her voice is more synthed with auto tune and quantization than I'd like. But a sense of minimalism in the production is kinda nice. I'm just not really into pop. And in that sense, it's not one I'll be looking to dig into again.

geiiiile ahfang omg d demon voice!!!! mmmh teilwiis ischsmer echli zu "artsy" ohni ine richtig z gah falls das sinn macht? two weeks hani aber mega schön gfunde!! (also s meiste findi recht schön) es tönt aber um eiiiniges moderner als 2014 puuh oke bi video girl sind d trap-triole chli heavy es isch reecht cool, musses glaub nomal lose. will obwohls cool isch, bini nöd immer "drus cho", wos lied annegaht? jaaa zB lights out isch für mich en song wo eifach isch und nöd weiss, woner anne söll? okay, me ghört mite chopfhörer scho bide beats gwüssi klassischi trap-element, me ghört amigs ebe doch dass es vo 2014 isch MANNN video girl wär würkli en coole song und denn de beat versautsmer recht😭 chanmi nöd zwüscheme 3 und 4i entscheide. guets 3?

es isch nöd öppis wo mich normalerwiis asprichst so de chli glitchy electronic r&b. nöd e ästhetik wi mir zueseit. isch irgendwie chalt. aber das isch uuuhuere guet gmacht super gueti sounds. two weeks isch huere guet. ich chum nöd mega drii trotzdem. s level a detail ide production findi irgendwie beidruckend, ich weiss nöd wie fest d songs verhebed. aso sie verhebed scho aber s isch mengmol chli 16 mol s gliich und hittet nöd eso. ich ha s gfühl ich wiederhol mich bi dene moderne r&b electro albums immer. ich fühls nöd aber ich respektiers und s isch kinda guet und au am richtige ort uf dere liste. 3.

FKA twigs has a lovely voice, but LP1 uses it like a synthesizer patch. The production is so polished and layered that she often feels more like a Vocaloid than a singer. I kept imagining a live show where a hologram appears, an instrumental starts playing, and everyone applauds the software. Impressive craftsmanship, but I'd rather hear the human underneath. If this album came out today, everyone would say it's generative AI. All the way down to the album art. As a matter of fact, I think it would be easier to create a prompt to recreate this album. In all the technology, the artist got lost. She predicted the future, and she's not better off for it. My Rating: 3/5 bits

Not sure how I slept on this when it first came out, but holy shit is this outstanding. Layered, complex, and smart lyrically and musically. This will sit in my regular rotation.

Loved it. A little biased because it's the first post-2000s album I've encountered in this rotation, but I'm just glad to see some dissonant, ethereal, electronic "laptop"-ass music made this list.

I am not familiar with FKA twigs, and as always, I give a fair shot to music. I thoroughly enjoy being surprised by a genre that I previously didn’t care for. With that being said, unfortunately that isn’t the case for this album or artist. I won’t be seeking anything else out by this artist.

When this album came out, it was hot for a bit, and I think I listened to it then. But I haven't listened to it since. I don't really recall much about it, so I'm not going into this blind, but maybe the more correct term might be amnesic. So, yeah, I don't recall much of any of this album. This occupies an odd space for me. It's better than meh, but I also don't feel compelled to listen to it, which probably explains why I listened to it once long ago, and never again. I think I'll be kind and give it 4, and maybe I just need to give this some more listens to really get it, so I'll add it to my list of albums to listen to again.

Disgusting.. I can't..

Eh. Nice chill musuc.

If you like really breathy, light vocals over electronic drums then this might be your jam. Not mine.

Where my fans of sensual, industrial Gregorian chant at!? This is definitely unique, thematic, and squeaky.

50 albums in and this is my first 1 star rating. This is actively trash. Futuristic beats that could be interesting but instead are just random sounds thrown together in a chaotic and maybe intentionally sloppy way. Her voice is my absolutely least favorite type of singing voice, high pitched needless whining. Stories not interesting. Songs repetitive. There is nothing worth even one listen on this album.

Had the feeling of the XX but not as good.

I am not one that like autotuned voiced and all the syntheterisation on voices but all the glitches and breakbeats were really nice. I'm not that much driven to pop usually but this one is really nice. Favorite Songs: Pendulum ; Numbers ; Give Up

An odd and compelling album. Beautiful vocals. 1 "Preface" (4/5) 2 "Lights On" (4/5) 3 "Two Weeks" (5/5) 4 "Hours" (4/5) 5 "Pendulum" (3/5) 6 "Video Girl" (4/5) 7 "Numbers" (4/5) 8 "Closer" (4/5) 9 "Give Up" (4/5) 10 "Kicks" (4/5) Total - 40 Average - 4 462/1001 244/462 albums reviewed were new to me.

I expect the same boring britpop that pollutes this list, but this was much more experimental.

Artiste inconnue. Cet album est une bonne surprise. L’accompagnement minimaliste se marie très bien avec la voix, et le chant est intéressant. Rare dans ce type de musique ! Je l’écouterais probablement de nouveau. =>3/5

Oh, I already know this is going to be a 5. I’ve loved this album since it came out. One of the sexiest, most ethereally beautiful albums and music artists out there. Words can’t describe how much I love all these songs and their music videos.

FKA twigs, because she's been through so much and she's still singing

Not for me.

Production is nice & poppy but that voice is painful

Not my thing. But no hate. Some shades of Bjork that I appreciated.

The cover put me off before I had even listened

Beep bop high pitched squeal beep beep. I imagine she can sing but it sounds like poor excuse for feeling.

FKA twigs would fit in well with yesterday‘s group Hives

I do like me some FKA but her later work is so much better

Closer to bjork, or maybe akin to, than the pop charts. Always interesting, some melodic hooks, yeah I need to hear this again.

Honestly much better than expected but I shouldn't have these prejudices as I have never even heard of this artist before. But maybe I'm also biased after the whole night of drinking after seeing Brighton ghost tour so I just want to relax a bit now and this hits that spot quite well. Perhaps 3 stars?

2.5 this one, to me, seemed as though they were searching for their sound or found it with 2 Weeks, then just riffing on that the rest of the time. Components are to simple for me as well

Why are there so many albums like this in the book!?

If there are no dreampop haters then I am no longer of this world As usual with the genre, vocals are usually the highlight and her voice is pretty nice. I don’t think there was a single moment I actively disliked It’s just so hilariously boring; god awful variety, basically nothing going on from an instrumental perspective, and it’s shallow as hell. Every song bleeds into one another and honestly it just kinda felt like the same boring song was being played again and again This would be fine music in a coffee shop or a salon but it’s completely devoid of substance and innovation considering there’s a million albums by this point that sound exactly like that. Just give me any song that has a melody and something interesting beyond just the vocals please

It is very clean but lacking that oomph.

I'd heard of her and heard her featured in some songs, but hadn't listened to her own music until this album. It wasn't really my thing.

Interesting electronic alt-pop. I liked her. Quirky in a good way.

Oh wow. Very pretty but do you sing about anything other than fucking? *sigh* Not for me, thanks.

sharing on her own terms.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything that sounds like it

3 but a high 3. Would listen again.

Seems unfair to rate this after just one listen, but I dug this for the most part. Interesting production and sound design or whatever you’d call it.

A challenging listen for me. I wasn’t really drawn in until the production on “Pendulum,” and after that track I fell back out.

I remember this album making waves when it came out. It's hard for me to separate that hype from 10 years ago from my listen today. I think it stands up to the test of time so far, but definitely gets tiresome by the end.

Это было просто забываемо, но выражаю респект за любовь к Коэну

Первый в жизни полностью прослушанный альбом твигс. Немного скучно, но красиво.

Являясь большим фанатом магдалины, никак не мог добраться до дебютника Талии. Последующие её альбомы хороши, но вот всё что-то не то, уже не вызывает тех эмоций. А вот LP1 - это прям охуенно, это тот звук, благодаря которому я начал её слушать. Полная раскайфовка

звучит прям приятно, но не уверен, что буду возвращаться - 3.5

If this is your first experience with FKA Twigs, please check out her other projects. She hadn’t yet mastered her space-age R&B yet.

First time listening to her music. And god, this brand of art pop with soft vocals is something that I just don't like at all 2/5

What a load of thinly produced meandering twaddle. I’m angry I listened to this.

Vibey

2.45 / 5 stars for Miss Twigs. This album sounds like someone got a hold of a 808 and a sample machine and loaded up GarageBand on macOS and went to town. Random noise, with a beautiful voice seems like a waste of talent here. 2 Weeks is good, I wish the album was more like that. Again, I question the author’s choice to include this album. I don’t hear anything on it that seems groundbreaking or worth listening before I die.

3/5

Her voice sounded like really bad ASMR coupled with the sound of one of the worst examples of electronic music known to man. Crap album.

A classic from my first year of college. It doesn’t blow me away as much as it used to but it’s still a great listen and I’m still a pretty big twigs fan. I think she only got better from here.

hell nah

Haunting voice. Stylistically individual.

I only had time to listen once, but must return as this feels like an album which will grow on me. The sound, style and mood remind me of Grimes and Christine and the Queens, reason enough to return.

Just no substance to this album

Impressively innovative. And a really creative evolution of r&b. Just not for me. 2*

not bad.

4/10

There’s stylistic creativity here, and a modern sensibility that’s compelling, but I find the lyrics and delivery often wanting

How is it possible to float approximately 4.82 feet off the ground, to be that light, but to also be so very sad? I do not know, ask FKA.

This is awful. I cannot imagine listening to this by choice on a regular basis.

This is beautiful, ethereal, psychedelic if a bit over produced. Not my thing.

Góð

Nokkuð fínt. Spurning hvort hún fengi fjórar stjörnur við næstu hlustun.

Fine

1082 - "Here's your juice box and orange slice. Thanks for coming."

Так и вижу как какая-нибудь девочка думает, что она самая крутая и непонятая сучка в мире, когда слушает эту хуиту на своем эппол мюзик пока едет в школку на грустном вайбике в Оклахоме (ну или в Томске, лол) Меня до дрожи калит эта уебищная обложка (как и другие обложки этой FKA twigs, впрочем) Но если говорить о музыке: это что-то типа из кучи электронных семплов намешанных друг с другом и преврающихся в периодический мемный Penis Music) и вот этот типа дримпоповый вокальчик с фэйдами и прочим растворяшками. И как бы, вроде бы музыкальная основа и привекла бы, если бы не периодически уебищная манера исполнения да и в целом, когда наслушаешь чё LP1 предлагает в первых 3-4 треках, всё остальное становится ясно. Ощущается, словно автор наяривал сам себе пока записывал это, с ощущением "гениальности происходящего", а я люблю великую музыку с непринужденной улыбкой на лице ну или с неким нонконформистским отвращением к нормисам и дистанцированием от публики.

this album was one of the coolest albums i’ve listened to this year

not. it.

I'm probably not the target market as I don't fully understand the music. I can appreciate the production but that's about it. It just makes me feel like I'm at an interactive contemporary art show and I don't feel like I'm supposed to be there.

Breathy falsetto-y vocals over glitchy electronica. Don’t feel like this has aged well and won’t stand the test of time. May have been added to the list too soon, which I seem to say about a lot of the 2010s entries… 2⭐️

I did enjoy this bundle of melancholic oddness

Pretty fucking amazing to be fair, never heard anything like it and probably never will again

Not for me

bem bom tá fui surpreendido positivamente

carai que PEDRADAÇA, tá maluco inventivo demais. pop de ótima qualidade aqui, hein! os beat bons demais, bem cru e até mei minimalista. gostei DEMAIS. só não vai ser 5 porque algumas me cansaram, mas o album todo eh completinho bão pra carai

While I liked the beats, and her singing is good in a technical sense, I just don't really care for this style of vocals, and it was hard to get past it. "Lights On" and "Numbers" were the standouts for me

I guess it's kind of interesting. Would definitely not listen to this of my own accord

A really boring album. 2 stars or D-.

This needs to calm down. Weird in a boring way.

Hyper processed experimental pop is just not really for me. There's a lot of interesting elements and she has a beautiful voice. Just can't really enjoy this though. It kind of feels like work to listen to it.

There was nothing rarely remotely intriguing about this. Not really being in the mood for this did not really help. There were moments that I thought there was potential but for the most part it just blended int one long bland blur of electronic breathy singing. 2 stars

A very ambient album but I don't find it very sonically engaging

Number: 260 Familiarity: Aware (2) Rating: 3 ======= Interesting album cover. I'm sure I've tried this one out before, most likely when I was making my best of 2014 list, I probably found it on some authoritative publications best of 2014 list. In fact, looking at her other album covers, I'm pretty sure I skimmed through most of them but checking my master workbook, I don't find anything at all from her in my favorites by years lists...So, I did listen to the whole thing and it was OK but not something I liked very much.

Listened to the album a while ago and really enjoyed "Two Weeks", but also found "Pendulum" to be entrancing on this latest listen

This is going to sound harsh but I think this artist hides her lack of originality and talent behind electronic sounds and whisper-thin vocalizing. She offers nothing of substance. And no, throwing profanity in as a shock factor (?) doesn't count.

Okay.

echt heel basic en nietszeggend

Amazing electronic textures. Love the soft voice against the heavier bass. Great sound.

Not a bad album, little bit of a different sound, similarish to Sza.

Decent album. Mangler revidering

During the Preface I was like "um..yea idk about this", but within a song or two I was pretty into it. Twigs has a lovely voice and uses it in interesting ways. I liked the atmosphere and found it engaging as well as relaxing. I feel like this is an album where you need to listen to it fully in order instead of random songs because it all flows one into another. Reminded me a bit of Bjork, whom I also like. Pretty cool; I plan on checking out more FKA Twigs.

very experimental but too slow for my liking, vocals on point though

huh?