Published online by TN2 magazine 17 December 2019. It’s been five years since FKA twigs last released a full length album, the highly acclaimed LP1. This debut album had a fantastic sense of atmosphere, with a minimalist, glitchy electronic aesthetic that complemented twigs’ fragile vocal lines wonderfully. Twigs’ voice would break through muffled beats, intimate and tragic. The consistent sparseness of the sound gave it a haunting, lonely power. In this follow up record, although there is only one track featuring another artist, twigs feels a lot less lonely. You could see Magdalene as coming in the wake of those other heavily produced, highly collaborative and promoted albums like Tyler the Creator’s IGOR and Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next. Their similarities also lie in their personal context, with each album being in reaction to a breakup. “I never thought heartbreak could be so all-encompassing,” twigs said of the album, “but the process of making this album has allowed me for th...