2018’s masterful Some Rap Songs covered 15 tracks in under 25 minutes. His albums are brief, dense, and brilliant. He exists outside of trends, and often, outside of conventional musical structure. With this album she seems to say “yes, I am ethereal, but I am also a person who likes to play around.” -Ammal HassanĮarl Sweatshirt has always made music on his own terms. But, in Caprisongs she acknowledges that shyness and then proceeds to have fun. Perhaps in her earlier music, traces of that shy girl can be found if you search past the ethereal enigma she has always adopted. Speaking on “meta angel,” twigs reflects on the struggle she has faced coming out of her shell “Each year I'm like, ah, I'm gonna own my shit, and then each year I'm still so shy and so quiet,” she confided. This album appears to reinvent the singer anew, again.
She channels her Jamaican roots with songs like “papi bones” and “jealousy” that offer up a Dancehall feel, some Afrobeat influence and that unique FKA twigs twist. The singer continues to test the limits of her voice, flying with it at points and “Yee”ing with it at others. Caprisongs is no exception to that tradition. With a series of idiosyncratic, innovative albums, FKA twigs has long marked herself as the queen of experimentation.
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If there is one thing FKA twigs knows how to do, it’s how to play with sound. The heartbreak keeps coming in Dawn FM’s back half, balancing out the drama with the clever funk of “I Heard You’re Married” and the dewey-eyed “Less Than Zero.” Like a neon-drenched dance party in dark times, Dawn FM is a welcome escape open to close. “Out of Time” and “Here We Go… Again” offer a mid-album break from the blistering synths with yearning neo-R & B ballads. “Take My Breath” hits hard and fast with Daft Punk-esque sheen among a handful of early club-crushing bangers.
DJ’d by a sultry-voiced Jim Carrey, Dawn FM is a near-future radio broadcast that works best taken as a whole.
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Dawn FM is an album–a full album in a time when many artists are releasing collections of singles to be plucked and streamed and TikTok’d independently. And with Dawn FM, the artist made his most complete artistic statement yet.
After Hours and the record-shattering single “Blinding Lights” defined and dominated pop culture in these early, fraught 2020s. Though The Weeknd has been in the top echelon of pop music for most of the past decade, the last few years have seen him launch into an entirely new stratosphere.