LP1

Ya know when Lorraine McFly says to Marty, “That was some interesting music.” But ya know what she means. This was how I felt about this album. Very sexual lyrics, and breathy singing on lots of the songs. Good vocal range but “interesting” stuff. Not my cup of tea. 1.5⭐️s

I think I've heard everything this has to offer before and found it unremarkable the first time. Maybe in 2014 it was new to break into the mainstream with breathy soprano over whatever sub-subgenre of electronic this'd be called. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Meh. Boring

It's okay. Not really my thing though

Not for me

Not bad, but I didn't really enjoy it. I can see that there is some artistic value to this album, but it's not something that I'm into.

Somehow I had Give Up on my iPod around the time this came out. It was possibly the free song of the week on iTunes. I think they still had that in 2014. Anyway, I actually like that song and I very rarely listened to this type of music. Never listened to the album until today and compared to Give Up, the rest is a disappointment. I guess Kicks was okay too.

I've always felt like I should like her stuff more than I do. On paper it has a lot that I like, and some of the producers connected with it I really love. Somehow though, I just don't connect too much with it. It is technically super impressive and I do enjoy listening to it, I just don't find myself wanting to go back much.

Really like the music, could do without the lyrics… it’d be nice for this to be an instrumental album instead lol

This was just breathy noise. I didn’t notice when it ended.

This was weird but not as off-putting as say, Bjork. I enjoyed some of the last couple songs, but this is outside my normal zone of listenability.

I enjoyed some of the arrangements and the more "bare" soundscape. The problem with that it highlighted her voice, which to be honest I don't like very much. Overall it was just ok.

I had low expectations going in. Better then i expected but still not my thing.

I didn't need to hear this one. Some of the beats/production were at least interesting. But I will never put this one on again.

I actually like some FKA Twigs songs, so I’m disappointed by how much I didn’t enjoy listening to this.

Not a great voice. Just soft, breathy and easily replicated.

there's something good in there somewhere, it just gets lost.

my wife likes music like this. but, not my thing. pass.

good length, the r&b influence and her voice are mildly annoying. the xx is better. 2.5 closer

This album tries so hard to be quirky and different with its dumb sound effects everywhere. Every song sounds the same, boring pop with a good voice that never melodically matches the music. The very few parts that are catchy can't save this turd. 1.5/5

Not my style but it is probably good

Not my vibe

Ultra modern and experimental. More of an interesting art piece than an enjoyable record to listen to.

This is some whispery experimental pop.

Not my kind of pop

She tried but not really hard enougth

Interesting in parts, ultimately not interesting enough for me.

i am glad that music like this exists and people like it but i did not

mag sie, aber is abiz boring

Barely listenable. Maybe an extra point for some nice stylish choices?

I felt like there was something good here under the surface, trying to break free. But it didn't try hard enough and got overwhelmed by the blandness. It's a shame, I almost liked it. But I didn't.

Just another album that washed over me without eliciting any emotion whatsoever

Appreciate some of the musicality but just modern enya

Not really my stuff, I recognise the value and it reminds me of GRIS, so that's a plus. But in the end I wouldn't listen to this again

Samey, no melodies or tunes to peak of. Not for me.

Not my thing.

It's not for me. It's too generic. Maybe I could give credit for it having (some) powerful lyrics. The songs are pretty great for dancing I guess. I don't imagine myself wanting to listen to this...ever.

I appreciate what she is trying to do here. The production is great and I hear the influence of Bjork, Kate Bush and others, on top of the R&B/techno/space thing but it doesn't do much for me.

It's not terrible, just isn't my taste

a modern r&b artist very airy but nothing really happens in these songs 2.5

Very breathy, sounds like everybody else

2/5. A unique voice mixed with good beats should yield good results but the songs just come out boring and uninspired most of the time. I can listen to it, I just would rather listen to something else.

Interesting electronica, breathy voice just gets overdone. Not going to stay on my playlist.

Zweverige popmuziek. 't is niet echt aan mij besteed

couple of songs

Interesting but does not stand out

Wanted to like this after seeing all the bad reviews. Ended up agreeing unfortunately. Great vocals ruined by over-producing. Sounded like a pop Goldfrapp but worse. Unlucky for FKA

La tapa me pareció preciosa!

Twigs has bent and mashed up genres to the extent that she has made something creative and original. Well done for that. The only problem is it does not sound very nice in my ears. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Two Weeks Date listened: 19/10/22

Not my thing but didn’t need to turn it off

Too much going on for me. Felt like I was having a conversation with 20 people at once.

Quite nice to listen to early this morning but not something I think I would seek out otherwise. 2/3*?

Didn't like it at first but it did grow on me. It was quite good for zoning out and working to.

It's not terrible by any means, as I liked her voice and some of the production, but it was sluggish and felt way longer than its 40 minutes.

Sure, this album was sonically innovative at the time, but it also lacks substance when it comes to interesting vocal melodies. As a result each and every song blends into one another--once you've heard that very cool track "Two Weeks", it seems like a lot of the tunes after it are trying to repeat the same template, but with far less success most of the times. And when the songs are not trying to do this, they're just shapeless blurs supported by weird bloops and bleeps (see "Pendulum"). Sometimes innovation, weird sounds and full-blown eccentricity are not enough. You also need real songcraft to make all those things cohere into a stable whole. Fortunately, the tunes on FKA twigs' second LP, 2019's *Magdalene*, were a little more moving, effective and dynamic, while retaining the off-kilter, eccentric nature of those displayed on LP1. So it's a 'no' to *LP1* for me here. But maybe I could say 'yes' to *Magadalene* later on... Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 814 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory: 100 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 46 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 41 (including this one)

I'm writing as I'm listening and overall I think it's OK. I don't love it, and I have had this notion in my head that she is a little overrated but with full transparency I have not heard all of her stuff. Is this one of the 1001 best albums of all time? I'm trying to find which parts make this record a standout and deserving of a place on this list. I'm hearing electronic (indie?) pop. Her voice is nice, but I'm not really blown away by it or anything. The production is cool and interesting- it's not formulaic, and has moments of minimalism (1 minute mark of "Hours"), and nice panned elements pretty often. I'm listening on speakers and not headphones, but the speakers are appropriately placed to experience panned sounds, and I get the impression of the sounds being panned for the sake of being panned / doing something different. It's hard for me to be wowed by excessive panning as something extraordinary however. I do really like how in "Video Girl" the chorus slows down tempo. That is very unique. This song and "Numbers" were the tracks I liked most. I did find it unfortunate that the choruses of these tracks were really repetitive vocally and lyrically though. Numbers has some intriguing production on it but it almost feels random to me- like there's no connection thematically to the lyrics or anything like that. It's almost like a video-game battle song. Is there some Gestalt "the sum is greater than the parts" happening? That has definitely been the case with some records on this list, but I'm not sure with this one. The album cover is cool and makes me think. It's like some photos of her real face and then some 3d modeled parts (her right eye, her right cheek, and her right ear). Pretty funky. Maybe there's some kind of connection here to the idea of "sum of the parts" here? I'm giving it a 2/5 because I think it has some interesting things in a few tracks but I wasn't really blown away by it.

This is really just not my taste I guess. I tried but I just couldn't find myself getting into it.

Très niché. À connaître, mais faut être dans le mood pour apprécier.

I did not like this and will not waste any more words on it.

Not bad, but hardly memorable. Definitely an enjoyable vibe, and some interesting experimentalism going on. Could be a grower

Mostly annoying but occasionally catchy.

This didn’t do much for me. Not sure if I need to give it another listen but was happy when it was on over

I was glad when it was done.

Not my kind of music. Good singer but i just don’t care for electronic music and echos/effects on the voices.

Not for me. The production is so weird and busy

Strange album. I can see why people like it. I really didn't, though.

Mouth-wateringly interesting multi-layered productions with R&B vocals. Not that enjoyable as a whole, it sounds messy, formless, and repetitive. It made me want to listen again to Taylor Swift's "reputation", not because it's a good album, but because it's one of the albums in this domain that I actually enjoyed once, ahhh good ol' 2010's. Overall, it basically sounds like a hifi version of vaporware.

Meh, kind of on the fence with this one. It had some interesting moments, but overall it is pretty underwhelming.

This is an unfair (and probably inaccurate) comparison - but, she's like the UK version of Ariana Grade? I know -it's mostly just the voice and the subject matter that makes that connection for me. The "music" is definitely more "indie" that "pop" - but not by that much. It's okay - probably worthy of a better ranking than I'm going to give it.

Not really sure if I'm qualified to judge this music but I know I don't like it.

the music is kind of creative and new but her singing doesn't add much unique to the tracks

meh

Als ik beter had geluisterd, had dit gejengel me waarschijnlijk flink geirriteerd.

Dit ging volledig aan me voorbij

A lot of this is immediately forgettable…

Nerviges Geseusel, ganz coole Beats hier und da, aber alles sehr ähnlich. Kann ich nix mit anfangen.

Listened twice now. Not for me.

First time of listening to this, a little to Ambient/Ethereal for my basic Rock 'n' Roll tastes I am afraid, can see why people like it but unfortunately not in my collection!

Meh.

Production sounds nice, but it is pretty boring music even after listening to it for a few times.

Yeah annoying to me.

i've tried this album before, it's not really gone down any better this time round. its a bit wacky innit.

Interesting album, unique, but not one I’m likely to revisit

Very ambient, not for me

Just another 40mins of overproduced breathy vocals and nice wee clicks and noises here and there. Ever track indistinguishable from the one before and overall I’m left feeling nothing.

This was pretty weird.

Didn't like anything here. Could have died without listening.

för knepigt för mig men inte helt urkasst

Annoying.

Keine schlechte Musik. Artifiziell ist es aber

This just washed over me. It sounds more like a film score rather than music to actually listen to. Weird ethereal voice effect.

No songs which could pull me into the style/ vibe that was given out

got stale very quickly

Interesting, but not for me.

Of all time? A work of repetition and consistency, but borders on monotony.

Man, I like twigs - maybe based solely on that one Apple commercial - but there's only one song on this one that I get into - Two Weeks. The rest feel like songs that never start and I get real frustrated with it.

Not too bothered

Interesting but overall not something I'd go back too.

I liked it when it came out, now all the tracks sound the same.

4

"Two Weeks" Released: 24 June 2014 "Pendulum" Released: 29 July 2014 "Video Girl" Released: 13 October 2014

no clue what I just listened to, left no impression

Not for me.

Ok I guess

Weird. I only liked 2 songs.

Första jag verkligen inte gillar. Nej, sån här artsymusim gör inget intryck på mig. Känns skönt att ha lyssnat klart. Inte direkt DÅLIGT men verkligen inget för mig.

Some interesting parts, though I forgot what I was going to say

Ich habe dieses Album emotionslos durchgehört, der vibe resonatet nicht bei mir. Möglicherweise würde es helfen, dabei druff zu sein.

Pretty mediocre. Nothing special here

interesting album based on insecurities. Very relevant in style and topic for the release year. The only issue, will this album be timeless? Unlikely.

Not bad if stuck in an elevator for 1h

kevyttä taustamusaa

Interesting, but not really my vibe.

Not for me

So bad. 1/5

I hate it

Boring

What pile of steaming horse crap, top 1001 my foot.

This was a tough one to get through.. I'm not sure who this music was made for because it even made my baby cry.

I don’t take the right kind of drugs to listen to this music.

The artist is appropriately named … twigs are broken pieces of something larger, small parts of a whole that used to serve a purpose. Twigs are mistakes, discards that hold no value on their own - they simply remind us that something better used to be here. This album is strong evidence that actual music died a long time ago and no one noticed. There is no modicum of talent present: an average voice, poor songwriting and unimaginative arrangements that use sound to hide behind rather than to enhance . If this is where ‘music’ has gone for it’s next afterlife, RIP Ziggy Stardust 🪦.

Soundtrack to a dystopian future I want no part of.

1/5

Well. Now we know what diarrhea sounds like in music.

Sounds like this was recorded in her bedroom on a rainy weekend 🥱

NNNnnnooooo....

Really gave it a shot … but this is just godawful atrocious breathy panting / singing. She has a great voice, but wow this is not my kind of music 1.5

nah. Just awful

Day914 - we already had a kate bush album and don’t need another worse one

Just not my cuppa tea.

what the hel

Very odd album. There was barely anything for me to latch onto. I didn’t enjoy this one.

Painfully tedious. Each song is a combination of high pitched breathy vocals layered on top of broken electro beats. It gets really annoying, really quickly. Hipster rubbish for 17 year old girls.

I got Bjorked!

Sigh - breathy vocals, reverb heavy, trap-style drums. Not for me. Let's try to be critical - it's like Kate Bush with no oomph and crap trap beats. Oh jeez it just doesn't stop. Numbers starts interesting... it's probably the least painful track so far Best track - Numbers 1 or 2 stars - stuttering, painful, over produced. Okay a 1 for the horrible drum in Video Girl which is like water torture or someone tapping on the inside of my skull.

intresting, prolly good, i js cant lisn 2 this. not my taste at all.

Nooe

musica horrible, contenido lirico pobre un album que deberia estar en una lista de los discos que nunca deberias escuchar ni aunque te paguen por ello.

Not for me

I didn’t get this album at all. While listening I felt bored, confused, and kind of drained. I still don’t understand why it’s considered such a big deal or how it ended up on so many “best of” lists. It’s not really R&B to me. It sounds more like tired, suicidal teenager dubstep mixed with artsy experimental electronic stuff. The whole record is boring, dull, and extremely repetitive. The songs bleed into each other with almost no variation. Starting an album with lyrics like “I love another one, that’s why I hate myself” (or whatever that miserable shit was) immediately tells you what kind of vibe you’re in for. I’ll give some points to the production — it’s atmospheric and well-made in a technical sense. But that can’t save how empty and annoying the actual music feels. No memorable songs, no real hooks, just a lot of whispering, moaning, and gloomy beats. Very bad album for me. One of the most overrated records of the 2010s.

The songs are pretty much just nothing. Its light airy music with breathy empty singing. Repetitive too. Best song: Kicks

dull.

A bunch of noise interspaced with grunts and moans. Pure shit.

This wasn't great. It didn't exactly cross over into offensive and irritating but there also wasn't a lot to like about it. I think the closest I came to liking it was Give Up, but even then I think it's fair to call it the best 1 star album so far 2.8/10

Ummmmm. All the songs seemed the same

Una falopeada tremenda. No se quien es, no la conocía. Escuché 3 o 4 temas y me pareció un divage. Como cuando un artista indie está aprendiendo a usar el ableton y toca todos los efectos. Horrible.

thank god i didnt play this in the car for others

Very pop and just found it boring

this sounds like terrible AI slop

Nope.

Yeah that wasn’t interesting at all. Won’t be back to re-visit this.

Not my cup of tea.

very ethereal sounding. not my taste sounds like the soundtrack to an edgy anime.

Whether I'd select it later for listening pleasure is highly debateable I found it warmed up around track 3 but overall it's one for the critics to drool over

Irritating, strung out and vapid. Terrible

Maybe if it wasn’t the same vocal over all the music. I had to DNF for my sanity.

Honestly? Just... bad. It felt really experimental in ways that did not make the songs better. Maybe it just wasn't for me, but it felt like the album was really conceited.

Un-melodic and hard to listen to. And on top of that, she tries the tired, breathy, "sexy" vocals. Always seems to be the refuge of someone without enough talent to actually sing like she means what she's singing. Holy crap I hated this one.

The happiest moment of my day today, was when my ear buds died in the middle of this album!

Trifft leider gar nicht meinen Geschmack.

This was god-aweful, and I dint even believe in god(s).

No private session used for Spotify. High pitched woman singing over electronic slop. Pointless and annoying.

Wow is this boring and repetitive. Did not enjoy at all

FKA Twigs releases their first album as FKA Twigs, meaning that they are CKA FKA Twigs. to co-opt (blatantly plagiarize) a Mitch Hedberg bit, she is FKA CKA FKA Twigz, she still is, but she used to to. This record killed my locomotive-esque momentum through the twisted view of the musical canon known as 1001 albums you gotta uhh *BURP* read about. It was a Thursday morn. I saw this cover, remembered that I was lazy and avoidant, and well, lazily avoided listening to this. It is now Tuesday of the following week, and the dear site moderators deactivated my journey. Just like that, you cut off me, musical Frodo on his unlikely journey to Mordor (Bono's estate, masked, armed). Well musical Frodo™ (talk to my attorney, Tolkien estate) is back on the trail to slay (endure aurally) another sadistic, barbaric orc (horrible record) for the purpose of returning the one true ring to the fires of Mt. Doom (completionism). Stop writing gibberish? Review the record?? Nobody noticed or cared that you were gone??? Fine. This is truly one of the worst things I've ever heard. Much like Dave Meltzer doling out extra stars to wrestling bouts that occur in the Tokyo Dome, you can count on the authors of this book/site to needlessly praise a bevvy of putrescent refuse emanating from the British Isles. May this forever be drowned out by the ear-splitting foghorn of a medical waste barge traversing the English Channel. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: the guy currently going by Twigs is a hobo behind Lawton's up on Larry U. Good luck getting the name back now.

No va

Echt niet vet, veel te modern en niet mijn ding

I couldn't even make it all the way through. After this many loser albums in a row, if the next album is 40 minutes of listening to cows getting milked, I would probably give it a 5.

.eh

What is this shit?

I really don't like this the instruments and vocals just don't match in my opinion

Someone made the conscious choice to publish this album and 110 million inbred kentukians seemed to listen to it, If you have faith that the human race is on the up, this album will starkly show you otherwise

Not for me

Album 990 of 1089 LP1 - FKA twigs (2014) Rating : 1.5 / 5 I went into this expecting something closer to pop, but it quickly became clear that the electronica side of things dominates - with a bit of a shoegaze or atmospheric feel mixed in as well. Either way, it just never connected with me. I can hear the intent and understand why this album is praised by many. There’s a lot of mood here, a lot of texture, and clearly a very deliberate artistic vision. That said, it’s not the kind of music that gives me much to grab onto. The songs drift more than they move, and the electronic elements tend to take over rather than support anything melodic that might pull me in. This feels like one of those albums that really clicks if you’re tuned into its wavelength - and if you are, I can see it being a rewarding listen. I just wasn’t on that frequency. Respect for the craft and the following it has earned, but it’s not something I’d come back to.

What’s the point of that?

Sound effects and boring breathy falsetto vocals that did not result in a pleasant listening experience

Not for me what the

Holy shit this is terrible!

I plead with this list to include more electronic, synth, and pop related artists and you give me this junk? Why am I not surprised that it is another album that did not sell well, by an English artist that was nominated for things but didn't win anything and so of course you foist her upon us. Such a ridiculous English bias upon this list. If this had been recorded by anyone that did not have English citizenship, there is no way that it ends up on this list.

This is my shit.

3/10 That was annoying

Ugh

inte alls min smak.

I've heard of FKA Twigs before, though I'm not sure how. It's difficult to get a read on what kind of album this'll be from the cover, though it reminds me of that Mac Miller album with the stupid fuckin balloon head artwork, so I'm hedging my bets on hip-hop. Oh, this kind of music. Is it electronic? I'm not sure. Anyways, this album sucks ginormo dick. There's some merit to the atmospheric, downtempo instrumentals, though they're betrayed greatly by FKA Twigs' incredibly shitty vocals. Those high notes do not hit at all, which is especially dire when 90% of this album is comprised of said high notes in question. The heavy production and effects which are added on top of the shit vocals go a long way in making them demonstrably worse, too. The same can be said about instrumentals, really. There's so much mastering and needless shit smeared on top of this album to where my mind ends up filtering out all of it. I'm a big fan of interpreting how an album's sound is captured within the album art, and this album is one of the better offerings of late. It's artificial and butt ugly. "Lights On" has a nice ambience on the better parts of the track, though the more jittery and discordant moments lose me. Those vocals are also pretty abominable. The rest of the album kind of grinds along, never culminating into anything remotely satisfying. Book time. One of my legally-obtained copies of this book fortunately contains this album within it's pages. Let's see. Musings about being a mutt musician. Unique. Critically acclaimed. That's it, really. Wikipedia consolidates the critical acclaim and reveals that this album charted decently. I mean, the critical backing is there and there's an undeniable level of risk which is exhibited on this album, so I dunno. I begrudgingly cosign this inclusion.

What the fuck. Wish I could give 0 stars

I just didn't get this

Not for me

I enjoy her voice but this is not interesting or memorable in any way.

Some of the music inside this album is interesting, but it consists of hardly formed ideas and doesn't develop enough to warrant song lengths over a minute. The lyrics are embarrassing. It's hard to believe she wrote those out, re-read them twice and gave them the OK. Finally, FKA Twigs falls into the same old intolerable trap that almost every other post-2010 artist falls into. Namely, a endlessly repetitive chorus consisting of almost no melody and ridiculous lyrics. 1.0/5.0: Embarrassing

who knew sid the sloth made terrible avant garde pop? i certainly didnt and i wish i could go back to how life was before i did. the worst part is that is my 500th album and i couldnt be more disappointed with the choice.

Ambient music with some squeaky vocals layered on top. I failed to engage with this in any way. 1/5.

Way too experimental for my tastes. She seems to not be sure if she wants to be ambient, electronic, or some experimental pop. There was moments where it started to feel like something was happening, but then no. Just a bunch of broken pieces jammed together in a haphazard mess.

Mostly weird, but not in a way I enjoy. Kinda cool beats sometimes, kinda cool vocals sometimes, but never together. Meh.

I can listen to most anything, this project has shown that, but this just didn't do anything for me beyond guttural repulsion. It's just noises, random unconnected noises. I'd take a double album of Yoko Ono screaming endlessly over this as at least that has a deeper meaning

"Look at me I'm so quirky and different!" holy fucking shit terrible album.

I don’t get it. There are parts of the songs that are ok…..even promising. Then weird sounds start and the voice modulation is too much.

I don’t know what this was.

This is honestly awful.

This one didn’t land with me.

Not sure if even a NIN remix would help this one. It’s also a shame because she does have a beautiful voice.

The project is very experimental. But just not my kind. Can understand the appeal for some listeners but just not what i typically listen to or like in an album.

Oljud

If you've ever wondered what it would sound like if Kate Bush had warbled over hip/hop beats, it's this. This is not a compliment.

Meh. Too experimental for me.

So being fucking weird and psychotic is art because "look at me I'm so edgy"? This is truly garbage. 1/5

1+ Stars (3/15)

At first I just thought this was pointless. Not enjoyable, but maybe just not my thing. By the third song, it had become annoying and I had other things to do with my Sunday that didn’t involve listening to this. I never got back to finishing it. I have no regrets about this.

Perfect album to have sex to. Bad album to sit down and listen to. With artists and genres like this, I think that's kind of the point. Which pisses me off. But it works. Edit: or does it? Fave songs: - Hours - Pendulum - Numbers - Kicks

Don't know what this is going for, but I don't like the final product. Seems like a collection of sounds loosely going for some interpretive music statement. Not good.

Not a fan. Weird music, whispered falsetto vocals. Would not recommend.

Not for me. Seems like music for lonely chicks.

Slow beats and breathy soprano does not a good album make. Only 40 mins and still way too long

I could only get thru 5 songs. This broad put me in a bad mood

Lame ass album

This albums feels so repetitive and uninteresting, being boring in every and each song. Electronic music can be much more creative than what this album is, being an endless and tasteless atmospheric-based collection of songs.

FKA-WTF? I would take any SD album over this….

Absolute gobshite. Super boring; every song sounded the same; I became actually offended with how awful and boring this was

couldn't get into this at all

1 song: OK... 1 LP: KO

Pass

this was not hitting for me today

Kan någon berätta för mig varför jag ska höra detta album innan jag dör. Jag hade i ärlighetens namn velat dö utan att ha hört plattan.

I did not enjoy that. i liked Two weeks though

Awful

First track has got me questioning whether I will make it all the way through. Second track, 3o seconds in, and this needs to get good pretty quick or I'm turning off and giving it a 1 star. Ok, it's picked up a bit.... oh fuck, it's gone weird again. Track 3 is just as fucking bonkers. I'm really not enjoying this. She's comign across a pretentious cunt trying to be all "edgy" and "unconventional". Fuck this, I'm out. 1 star.

nope nope nope

Maybe it needs more than one listen? But I didn’t get anything from it at all to bring me back for any other listens.

I have no patience for this.

no

This was a bit of a sonic mess. @boopidoo, your reviews are so funny! I found the introduction to each track infinitely more interesting than the track itself.

This was terrible. Listened to a few songs and stopped. Probably one of the worst on this list. 0/5

Nope. This was borderline unlistenable at times. I can’t stand breathy singing, and this had it cranked up to 11. The drum machine was obnoxious and felt like a bad fit in most songs. I was looking forward to the album being over so I didn’t have to listen anymore. I don’t think this is a must listen for anyone, and it doesn’t need to be on this list.

Boring. Not ever needed to be on a "must listen to before you die". Not a single redeemable song on the album. None of it is going to the playlist

Vapid tripe

not for me

Wow this is bad.

terrible

Nah, no thank you. Noise.

Whatever she was going for it was nowhere near anything I'd ever want to listen to. I didn't make it through a single song.

Wack

Not gonna pretend I’m down with the kids! I try to be upbeat about most music going in on here, I have many more 5/4 star than 1/2 ratings. She can sing and writes songs so guess that meets the criteria - singer songwriter. But it’s Like a modernising, life draining, take on the concept. No I’m not down with it, it was a painfully shit listen, a horrid waste of my time. Minimising everything, on every song is just brutal, instrumentation and arrangement is crude sounds, with a vocal that’s spent/wasted to create the unsettling ambience, that if it’s your thing then fine, but I had to force myself not to hit the stop button, continually. 1 Star, accept that I am definitely not the target audience, but this was my listen today and after doing so I wish I had not, so I am entitled/forced to write in this box, and the only positive was it reaffirms my old sod stance that modern music is an absolute steaming pile of dog shit, don’t care how many plays this gets (while it’s still supposedly valid) , I’m just sorry I stepped in this and added my 1 play to it.

Not only was this boring but also a waste of my time. Sure it was very different from what I have heard before and for that I can respect, but the autotune electric elements do not excite or thrill me. I truly can’t decide between a 1/2 because although something I wouldn’t listen to, it’s different from things I’ve heard. However, I really can’t think of one truly good aspect so I guess there’s my answer…

For a moment I was reminded of a band called Rosewater Elizabeth from the 90s that I liked, but I couldn’t play any song to the end here. Boring.

Terrible

No words

dnf

No thanks. Nothing that I would listen to again.

Tried listening but just not really my thing

LP1 is less an album and more an elaborate test of patience. FKA twigs has a voice, sure, but she seems determined to bury it under a heap of glitchy, overproduced sound effects and falsetto acrobatics that quickly wear thin. Each track meanders aimlessly, like a dubstep song stuck in first gear, never delivering any kind of payoff. It’s music that desperately wants to feel profound but ends up feeling like you accidentally wandered into someone’s experimental college art project. The production is sterile and overwrought, stripping away any chance of emotional connection. The lyrics—if you can even call them that—are little more than breathy, disconnected fragments that float over a backdrop of beats that can’t decide if they’re coming or going. It’s like listening to an overambitious student composer throwing every effect they can find into the mix, hoping it will somehow stick together. Spoiler: it doesn’t. Artists like Kate Bush or Tori Amos could pull off eccentricity with charm and coherence, but LP1 feels more like a random collection of noise that never even tries to hit that mark. Occasionally, the album flirts with something resembling an interesting idea, but it always fizzles out before it can go anywhere. It’s not just unmemorable—it actively defies you to care about it. For an album hailed as a critical darling, LP1 is an exhausting slog of pretentious production and lifeless performances. I didn’t just dislike this album—I actively hated it. Listening to it wasn’t an experience; it was a chore. One star—for at least knowing how to hit record.

I hated this. Probably interesting if you like music completely different than the music I like so I can see why it's here. But for me it's a 0.

Bad, didn’t finish listening to it. Didn’t like it at all. She feels like a creep.

Whispery, mumble-lyrics, with maybe one word in ten actually clear enough to hear. Which is fine with me, as I looked up some of the lyrics, and they're inane enough to not deserve hearing clearly. In the background, we have some glitchy electronic noises, pretty much the same noises throughout the entire album, no hooks and lots of annoying "tapping" sounds. The only thing this made me think of was the theme tune to the last season of Skins, which is probably a poor comparison, as that actually has a dynamic and diverse sound. Maybe the aim of this album is to invoke a feeling of low effort, minimal, sparse music? Anyway, it certainly succeeds in this aim. The "singing" is usually ignorable, but from time to time there will be a squeaky section, like the noise a small, excitable dog might make, almost painful to my ears. I actually felt drained listening to this; if I could give it zero stars I would, it's truly awful.

i hated this. i tried to get through it but i physically could not. this is not the kind of music i like at all, and i don’t think it’s objectively bad, but i fucking hated it oh my god

No disrespect but this music wasn’t for me.

Hmm.. not for me

Really could not get into this at all. Lack of melody, song structure, variation of sound. It just came of as vague. What is it? What type of music is it? I associate this sound with millennials and Gen z.

I didn't get it. Loads of bells, and whistles, and bleeps, and I don't think she has a lot of range with her voice - everything ethereal and bland and loud. Simply just not for me.

Never heard of FKA twigs and really quite disliked it. Made me question whether I understood what music was and feel old and out of touch. "I used to be with it, then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what it is seems weird and scary to me" comes to mind. I think generally I'm quite open minded when it comes to new stuff but this wasn't it

Another woman pop/ alternative singer. All sound alike.

I didn't enjoy this at all. Does nothing for me.

Don't judge a book by its cover. But do judge an album by its cover. This one especially. Sounds exacly like you'd expect.

And again: no

# 318 : Can't Listen, don't like it, I'm not sure it inspired anyone, but if the music isn't good, I'm not sure I need to hear it before I die. I can't imagine getting hit by a bus and my last thought being, "But I never got to that album from FKA Twigs!".

I didn't get into this at all. Couldn't finish, but I feel bad with one star because I may have missed the bangers, but I don't feel like I will actually miss any of it.

This was a terrible album to add to this list. This has no significance whatsoever.

I just don’t like it. Electronic music just isn’t for me

Too "sexy" for me....

This is the musical equivalent of style over substance — all aesthetic, no soul. It tries desperately to be avant-garde, but ends up sounding like a pretentious mess of whispery vocals, awkward rhythms, and production that’s more interested in being “weird” than listenable. It’s as if someone took the concept of emotional depth, filtered it through a fog machine, and forgot to include an actual song. Tracks bleed into one another with little distinction, and while the album clearly wants to be groundbreaking, it often feels hollow and self-indulgent — like a fashion show with no models, just flashing lights and ambient noise. LP1 doesn’t invite you in; it keeps you at arm’s length and dares you to care. In the end, it’s less of a musical experience and more of an endurance test. If this is the future of R&B, it might be time to hit rewind.

Budget Portishead.

Some random sound from a freeware music creation tool. Sorry, that 0 is no option.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Next.

Ass

Right then, sort of a poor man's Kate Bush but without the ability to make it consumable by the masses. was my first impression. But it improved with the last few tracks. Unfortunately it was followed on my player by Bjork and I realised that she also made a far superior job of it. Can't do better than a 1.

If a complete mish mash of electronic sounds with squeaky breathy vocals is your thing then give this a go. It’s not my thing so I wish I hadn’t bothered. It screams pretentious hipsters to me!

AWFUL noise!

Did nothing for me

No thanks!

I can no longer enjoy EDM unless it’s chill and melodic. This was too chaotic

Wouldnt be in my top million. After Portishead came out all this after is meh. Slow electronica is NOT my jam.

I really hated this. It was like, they've taken the worst kind of easy listening crap and made it electronic. Don't get it at all.

I listened through once. I liked some music like this back when this came out, but this wasn't for me. I couldn't do a second listen.

FKA Twigs... She sings very well with a lot of feeling, but somehow doesn't leave me feeling anything. There are lots of interesting sounds an rhythms, but I was bored after a couple of songs. It just felt like a music student composing and performing a piece that ticks all the boxes to get a good grade.... But it don't sound good.

I hated this so much

Bro this shit is a bunch of doo doo 💩 💩💩💩🕴🏻

No

Inte min grej. Första låten lät lite som aphex twin men det blev snabbt ointressant.

If I was opening up a brand new H & M at a local mall and was looking for some music to play inside of it, this would be a 5. While I can appreciate the production value of the album I have no desire to listen to any of it ever again. This is white woman music and I am not a white woman. The only time I can consider ever listening to this album again is if I picked up some artsy coed and she put it on her JBL speaker while I am balls deep in her.

1/10. Next

not my thing

Horrible album cover, doesn;t even listen.

Album felt dark.

This was horrible. If I were trapped in a haunted dollhouse - this would be the soundtrack.

not for me

great voice, terrible lyrics

Waaaaaay too low key/low energy/passive for me.

This feels extremely generic to me. It got better as it went on and I can see it's value as a vibe, but I'm not sure it's distinct enough from similar pop to help me understand it's place here.

wow this was bad. not much of a discernable rhythm, it felt like more of a mish-mash of electronica and vocals than anything arranged. Maybe it sounds better on heroin.

Not my style

This is definitely not my style. Too random, too breathy, to un-focused.

Boring

Oh hell no.