FKA twigs Teases New Album Eusexua Afterglow
FKA twigs is going to be releasing more new music very soon. The singer just finished her tour in support of Eusexua with a performance at Lowlands, and she told the crowd at the Dutch festival about a project called Eusexua Afterglow. “I am full and abundant and ready to give birth, FKA twigs said. “Her name is Afterglow, and my labor shall commence next month.” Representatives for FKA twigs confirmed to Pitchfork that Eusexua Afterglow is “not a deluxe version, but rather a whole new album.”

Lily Allen Releasing First New Album in Seven Years, West End Girl, This Week
Lily Allen has announced her first album in seven years: West End Girl is out this Friday, October 24, via BMG. Its 14 songs were mostly written by Allen and her musical director, Blue May, and the pair executive-produced the LP alongside Seb Chew and Kito. Below, check out Spanish artist Nieves González’s cover art.
In a press release, Allen said, “I’m nervous. The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn’t been before—certainly not over the course of a whole album. I’ve tried to document my life in a new city and the events that led me to where I am in my life now. At the same time, I’ve used shared experiences as the basis for songs which try to delve into why we humans behave as we do, so the record is a mixture of fact and fiction which I hope serves as a reminder of how stoic yet also how frail we humans can be. In that respect I think it’s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them. It’s a story…”
Since her last album, 2018’s No Shame, Allen has appeared in various West End London theater productions and co-founded the podcast Miss Me.

早在 2024 年 7 月 JADE 携出道单曲《Angel of My Dreams》惊艳乐坛时，她尚未命名的首张专辑便已制作完成。这首单曲由 Mike Sabath 操刀，将抒情摇滚的戏剧张力、强劲的电子低音律动以及甜美却暗含讽刺的旋律拼接在一起，犹如一首“弗兰肯斯坦”式的怪诞之作，而它大胆的实验性也赢得了歌迷与评论界的一致好评，让人们对这位前 Little Mix 成员的未来作品充满期待。正如 JADE 在单曲发行后告诉 Apple Music：“这张专辑里有很多歌延续了这种实验氛围。当然也有几首更直白的流行歌曲，但其中依然夹杂着我脑海里那些混乱的念头。”

这一点，在专辑《THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!》正式发行后得到了印证。专辑前半部分由多首先行单曲打头阵：《Fantasy》自在游走于闪耀的 Disco 风情中，与 RAYE 合作的《Midnight Cowboy》投身舞池俱乐部氛围，而《FUFN (Fuck You For Now)》）又彻底释放了电子流行的能量。专辑后半部分则更全面地整合了她身上广泛的音乐影响，在不牺牲原创性和先锋气质的前提下，塑造了她独特的音乐个性。“我认为（《Angel of My Dreams》的好评）让我更自信地去做自己。我可以去冒险，可以尝试更大胆的东西……”

这种自信也延伸到专辑的歌词主题上，正如《Plastic Box》中上演了一段令人愉悦却疯狂的爱情，JADE 直面了自己在聚光灯下生活、陷入爱情并引发激烈反响的复杂心境，从各个角度剖析了她与自己内心作战的体验。她在《Self Saboteur》中坦承自己已筑起情感的高墙，随后又在情绪跳跃的中板歌曲《Glitch》中敞开心扉，吐露“你对我说谎 一副理所当然的样子”（telling me lies, telling me how it is）、“左右我一切决定”（hijacking all my decisions）的复杂心声。《Unconditional》在跃动的合成器流行节拍上，轻盈地向一个不爱自己的人许下承诺，献上她毫无保留的爱意；而《Natural at Disaster》则将“感伤恋歌”的概念具像化，伴着温暖的钢琴，以戏剧性的唱腔点燃了一段不和谐关系的回忆。“如果我写的是与我个人相关、稍显阴暗的主题，我总会加一点幽默。”JADE 在专辑发行时告诉 Apple Music，“作为词曲作者，我终于可以探索这些更私密的话题，并让大家看到真正的我，这很有趣。”

身为英国人气女子组合的前成员，JADE 在团十年间深度参与创作，因而专辑《THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!》也多少延续了 Little Mix 后期作品的风格，并继续与 Sabath、MNEK 和 Lostboy 等制作人合作。许多组合成员在单飞后都会选择彻底重塑自我，以展示他们被集体压抑的艺术个性，JADE 却并未急于摆脱过去，而是大胆地将自己独特的创作冲动与熟悉的声响融合。正因如此，《THAT’S SHOWBIZ BABY!》听来更为真诚，让她在开辟未来音乐道路的同时，也重新拥抱并掌握了自己的过去。

Multi-Brit Award and Mercury Prize nominee Olivia Dean releases her highly-anticipated second album, The Art of Loving. The Art of Loving is a tender, intentional deep dive into the many dimensions of love – romantic, platonic, self, and everything in between. The album features Olivia’s recently released single, ‘Nice To Each Other’.

Since blowing up on TikTok in 2021, the English singer-producer has balanced polished pop ambitions with DIY experimentation. On one hand, dreamy wisps of drum and bass and garage that clocked in at under two minutes; on the other, runaway megahits like “Boy’s a liar” and its subsequent Ice Spice remix. It’s a line PinkPantheress has trod deftly between her debut mixtape, 2021’s <i>to hell with it</i>, and her first studio album, 2023’s <i>Heaven knows</i>. “Half of me really wants to be a very recognized and one day iconic musician,” she tells Apple Music. “And then part of me is also like, being an unsung hero seems cool, too.”

She maintains the balance on her sophomore mixtape, <i>Fancy That</i>—at once slick and eccentric, nostalgic and new, crisp but not too clean. Here she channels the euphoria of ’90s big-beat heavy-hitters like Fatboy Slim or Basement Jaxx, the latter of whom she samples frequently throughout (most pointedly on “Romeo,” a nod to the UK duo’s 2001 hit of the same name).

Basement Jaxx’s first album, <i>Remedy</i>, was a major source of inspiration. “It blew me away, and I felt things that I hadn’t felt before,” she says. She’s honed her knack for reinterpretation since. “Stars” features her second sample of Just Jack’s “Starz in Their Eyes” (she previously used it on 2021’s “Attracted to You”), and on “Tonight,” she flips a 2008 Panic! At the Disco cut into a swooning house number. Tying it together are her ethereal vocals, cooing sweet nothings across the pond over a bassline from The Dare on “Stateside”: “Never met a British girl, you say?”

As for where she stands on the superstar/unsung hero spectrum, she’s willing to tilt in favor of the latter at the moment. “I’m very happy to have an album that is way more pensive and less appealing to virality,” she says. “The first project was underdeveloped, but hype and hard and cool. Second project was well done, cohesive. I’ve proved I can do both. Now I can go and do exactly what I want.”

Named after the French word for the rustle of silk, Frou Frou's debut album exudes cool, stylish elegance. Singer Imogene Heap's soft, whispery vocals intone dreamy lyrics of doomed romances and slow recoveries. The songs are penned by Heap and her partner, producer Guy Sigsworth (Björk, Madonna), who manned the board on Heap's 1998 solo album I Megaphone. Even the mighty Brian Eno gets into the act, with a cowriting credit on the soul-bearing "Hear Me Out." In fact, all 11 tracks deal with love and fractured relationships, hauntingly beautiful both in their stark emotional content and the equally sparse arrangements that showcase Heap's ethereal voice, which she uses as a subtle weapon, much like Joni Mitchell circa 1970's Ladies of the Canyon, with the same heart-stopping yet effortless octave leaps.

One summer night in 2022, during a break from shooting <i>The Crow</i> reboot in Prague, FKA twigs found her way outside the city to a warehouse rave, where hundreds of strangers were dancing to loud, immersive techno. The experience snapped the English polymath (singer, dancer, songwriter, actor, force of nature) out of the intense brain fog she’d been stuck inside for years—so much so that she was moved to invent a word to describe the transcendent clarity, a portmanteau of “sex” and “euphoria” (which also sounds a bit like the Greek word used to celebrate a discovery: eureka!). <i>EUSEXUA</i>, twigs’ third studio album (and her first full-length release since her adventurous 2022 mixtape, <i>Caprisongs</i>), is not explicitly a dance record—more a love letter to dance music’s emancipating powers, channeled through the auteur’s heady, haunting signature style.

The throbbing percussion from that fateful warehouse rave pulses through the record, warping according to the mood: slinky, subterranean trip-hop on the hedonistic “Girl Feels Good,” or big-room melodrama on the strobing “Room of Fools.” On the cyborgian “Drums of Death” (produced by Koreless, who worked closely alongside twigs and appears on every track), twigs evokes a short-circuiting sexbot at an after-hours rave in the Matrix, channeling sensations of hot flesh against cold metal as she implores you to “Crash the system...Serve cunt/Serve violence.” Intriguing strangers emerge from <i>EUSEXUA</i>’s sea of fog, all of them seeking the same thing twigs is—sticky, sweaty, ego-killing, rapturous catharsis.

英国创作女歌手Lily Allen的第四张录音室专辑《No Shame》确定在2018年夏季发行。

FKA Twigs announced Thursday that her mixtape Caprisongs — her first collection of new music since 2019’s Magdalene — will be released on Friday, Jan. 14. "CAPRISONGS is my journey back to myself through my amazing collaborators and friends,” the singer wrote of the mixtape on Instagram. “CAPRISONGS… it’s bronzer in the sink, alco pop on the side, a cherry lolly, apple juice when ur thirsty, friends in the park, your favourite person, that one sentence somebody said to you that changed everything, a club pre-game, your bestie who is always late but brings the most to the party, meeting a friend at the airport, just togetherness.”FKA Twigs also shared the mixtape’s 17-song tracklist, cover art, and guest list, with artists like Jorja Smith, Daniel Caesar, Shygirl, Rema, and Dystopia appearing. Caprisongs also boasts the previously released single “Tears in the Club,” featuring the Weeknd.“It’s my stubborn caprisun ass telling me to work thru my pain by delivering at work, don’t think just go studio and create,” she continued. Prior to Caprisongs and “Tears in the Club,” FKA Twigs returned to music after a two-year hiatus with “Measure of a Man,” which featured on The King’s Man soundtrack.

Track 1 written by the Arctic Monkeys.
Produced by Jim Abbiss and recorded by Laurence Brazil at Mayfair studios, London.
Mixed by Jim Abbiss and Barny at Olympic Studios, London.
Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
Track 2 written by The Little Flames (Copyright Control)
Track 3 words and music by Van McCoy (Copyright 1972). EMI Blackwood Music Inc - EMI Songs Ltd.
The second B-side, Baby, I'm Yours is a cover of the Barabara Lewis song. It's a collaboration with the 747s, a band the Monkeys met when working in a London studio.the song took me by surprise most of all, a song which sounds as if it could have jumped off an old 50s record.
3. Baby I'm Yours
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还是神经粗大的样子
还是1969喜欢的很活泼的感觉
不过翻唱一个老女人的歌
倒让人认为他们的温柔