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Aug 25, 2015M3LL155X, whatever the hell it is, is perfect. Rarely have five songs sounded so cohesive, or made such a dramatic statement.
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Aug 21, 2015Notionally a five-track EP, M3LL155X is in its fullest realisation an art film/performance (co-directed and co-choreographed by her), freely available on YouTube.... Musically, it’s a more focused, coherent application of the same kinds of sounds and vocals used on LP1.
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Aug 27, 2015The vocals still send chills down the spine and everything becomes more grand and obtuse with every song. FKA twigs is striking, stunning weird and if her debut album assured that, this follow-up only strengthened her case.
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Aug 24, 2015Form and function crystallize together here, and man does it feel so right.
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Aug 19, 2015M3LL155X (pronounced 'Melissa') builds on her previous work, exploring ideas of dominance and submission and drilling down almost completely into the self. Instead of obfuscating her soft voice with layers of effects or singing in that cartoonishly frail and breathy falsetto, twigs prowls confidently over M3LL155X.
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Aug 27, 2015The effect of the album is soothing and challenging all at once; full of complex messaging yet equally suitable as backdrop for studying; worthy of lingering concentration on each and every note or dozing off to on an airplane.
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Aug 26, 2015Here twigs sounds even more poised and self-assured.
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Aug 21, 2015The music is spacious, paranoid and sultry; the lyrics are suggestive and knotted.
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Aug 19, 2015On M3LL155X, she does seem to be growing stronger, testing the boundaries between light and unfathomable darkness, the breathtaking and the nauseating.
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Aug 19, 2015M3LL155X is sometimes more show than substance, but it’s ultimately a sign of twigs getting more confident by the second.
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Aug 19, 2015The five tracks on M3LL155X feel like parts of a whole, musically and thematically connected in a way you wouldn’t necessarily expect from a between-albums EP.
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Aug 19, 2015The challenge of teasing audience expectations and controlling an artistic persona would seem far greater. With this EP, twigs pulls it off expertly, fracturing and blurring her musical self.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 322 out of 363
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Mixed: 8 out of 363
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Negative: 33 out of 363
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