ABOVE: FKA TWIGS IN LONDON, MARCH 2014. JACKET AND NECKLACE: CHANEL. EARRINGS AND RING: BVLGARI. SEPTUM RING: LOVE, ADORNED. STYLIST: KAREN CLARKSON.
If you’ve heard about British musician FKA Twigs, chances are it’s because one of her hypnotic music videos popped up in your news feed last year. “It’s weird, for someone who mostly really exists online,” says the 26-year-old, born Tahliah Barnett. “I’m actually not very interested in the internet at all.” Two breakout EPs into her career, she does, however, seem to be into preserving some element of mystery, revealing only that she got the moniker Twigs for the way her joints crack .
Kicking back at the offices of her label, Young Turks, Twigs speaks in the low-pitched whispers that permeate her minimalist, eerie R&B. “I was never the type of teenager who got fixated on one thing,” she says of her early influences. “I was more interested in dancing and Matthew Bourne’s” Growing up in the rural Gloucestershire countryside, she says a diet of black-and-white movies and ballet lessons were more formative than any musical heroes.
When it came to putting together her first full-length album, out this summer, the singer concocted her own stark soundscape across the record, serving as artist and executive producer. “I feel like I can reveal a little bit more about myself,” she says. “I enunciate, so people can understand what I’m talking about rather than it being about an atmosphere or a feeling.”
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