With her hypnotic videos, provocative album and singular image, the mysterious FKA Twigs has quickly become pop’s most intriguing talent. Over a tearful lunch in New York, the singer talks to Tom Lamont about her incredible year
Known to her friends and colleagues as Twigs, and successfully introduced to a favourable public this year as FKA Twigs (“Formerly Known As”, the result of a wrangle with another artist who’d bagged the name), Tahliah Barnett spends her days pivoting between professional identities.
The 26-year-old is a songwriter whose provocative debut album, LP1, was relished by critics on release in August, Twigs compared to lions like Kate Bush and Prince and immediately nominated for the Mercury prize. She’s a veteran dancer who has skulked and body-rolled through a string of hypnotic videos – most self-directed, distinctive enough to land her a commission to make a recent ad for Google. Wild haired, eccentrically dressed, she is also closely watched for her fashion and grooming choices. When I join her in the back of a New York taxi, hours before a gig in the city, she’s in this mode, wardrobe-department mode, bent double over her smartphone and composing a list.
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by Tom Lamont via Electronic music | The Guardian
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