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The WireDec 15, 2014That the album works so well is less a testament of Twigs's charisma and talent--real as those may be--than it is the limitless possibilities of well-paid freelance teamwork. [Nov 2014, p.63]
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Q MagazineAug 28, 2014Uncanny. [Sep 2014, p.108]
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Aug 21, 2014Her debut long-player LP1 is proof that talent can only thrive in the shadows for so long.
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Aug 21, 2014In sum, the mysterious Tahliah Barnett has created a devastatingly beautiful and industrial debut.
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MojoAug 20, 2014LP1 is a hugely self-possessed debut, the work of an artist whose vision--not only her visual sense--is strong. [Sep 2014, p.89]
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Aug 15, 2014Thrillingly, LP1 gives any record you might find us covering elsewhere on The Quietus a run for its money in terms of oddness.
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Aug 15, 2014This might be FKA twigs' first full-length, but it demands attention.
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Aug 14, 2014It’s remarkable the album sounds so cohesive and richly defined.
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Aug 14, 2014All those flinching sounds can surely give some fatigue after a while, but does it matter when it’s so good at instant gratification.
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Aug 14, 2014FKA twigs, more than any of her weirder colleagues, seems to understand how to fuse experimentation, traditional pop frameworks, and pop-star packaging into uniquely viable, potent formula for breakthrough success.
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Aug 13, 2014In the end, LP1 is probably the most singular pop album of the year. It's testament to how emotionally affecting one person's realised vision can be.
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Aug 13, 2014LP1 is more than just a confident debut album. It's primordial in a way that Björk herself has often attempted but frequently short-circuited letting her cognizance get in the way.
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Aug 12, 2014With both immediate appeal and density that demands long-term digestion, it’s one of those rare debuts that manifests a fully-grown, deeply engaging sound.
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Aug 12, 2014Few debuts possess such control and ambition all in one; LP1 is the rare album that manages to sound both lived in and completely futuristic.
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Aug 12, 2014Twigs' deconstructed shards of U.K. grime and garage land heavier, while elegiac vocals soften the songs without blunting their edge.
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Aug 12, 2014In its menacing incandescence, LP1 sounds like nothing else in the world right now.
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Aug 12, 2014A tangle of influences and contemporaries; yet she manages to keep space in which her frail breath of a singing voice can survive.
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Aug 12, 2014FKA 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.
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Aug 12, 2014As with any major pop album, LP1 is a crew effort, there’s no doubt as to whose hand is on the rudder.
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Aug 11, 2014LP1 is the kind of soft-focus album that the late American R&B singer Aaliyah might have made.
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Aug 11, 2014LP1 takes the humid isolation of Twigs’ EP1 and EP2 and twists it into ten tracks of relationship Hail Marys. But there’s a subdued sense of strength running under Barnett’s pleas that translates into a dark confidence, and in that tension is where LP1 finds its best moments.
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Aug 11, 2014LP1 isn’t anything revolutionary; it’s a frankly expressed project focused on the dualism between love and lust, reality and fantasy.
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Aug 11, 2014LP1 is a fantastic debut from an artist who is quickly becoming the curator of her own mental museum.
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Aug 11, 2014FKA 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 ("If the flame gets blown out and you shine/ I will know that you cannot be mine"). But when she zeroes in on the essence of a thing, she hits hard.
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Aug 11, 2014Twigs’ superb vocal melodies anchor LP1’s flights of experimentation. Were they to be stripped from the album’s bizarre flourishes and dropped into a commercial R&B context, they would stun nonetheless.
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Aug 11, 2014Even if the sex-angst of millennials is not your thing, FKA Twigs can still satisfy, and that is why LP1 (the title oozes confidence) is so special.
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Aug 8, 2014This longform escapade is the real McCoy, and where the magic happens. The honeymoon period is over.
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Aug 7, 2014She exerts enough of a magnetic pull to lure listeners into some challenging territory.
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Aug 7, 2014It has its flaws--as you might have intuited from the videos and press shots, they largely stem from trying a bit too hard--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.
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Aug 6, 2014This pervading sense of control and commitment to her art proves that Twigs is set on building the sound of the future all by herself.
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Aug 5, 2014FKA Twigs emerges the high priestess of R&B's latest corruption, and the world will kneel at the altar.
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Aug 5, 2014LP1 is a brave first step that she had to take. It’s not perfect, but anything this expressive and personally vital rarely is.
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Aug 5, 2014Fragile, heavenly and utterly compelling; this debut paves the way for boundaries-pushing pop. This is music that shatters you with a single tap.
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Aug 5, 2014Confidently frail and hesitant, LP1 is a refreshing reaction to, and a calm assault upon, the unfathomably fast-paced total noise of the current age.
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Aug 5, 2014You don't have to be a strict devotee of the R&B underground genre to realise that this is a great album. The sound is her own, and she's capable of making an album work as an album rather than just a collection of songs.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 411 out of 459
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Mixed: 13 out of 459
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Negative: 35 out of 459
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