By After delivering to the world an absolute killer of a mixtape entitled CAPRISONGS last January, it comes as no surprise that fans have been eagerly waiting for the British experimental singer FKA twigs to release this year, after collaborating with Yung Lean on “Bliss” and Shygirl on “papi bones“. She performed the unreleased single in her tiny desk (home) concert amongst two others, before announcing a week later that the track “killer“ was to release very soon, only for the official single to drop on the 16th June 2022.
In her new song, FKA twigs explores the dangers of ‘a woman in love’, characterising her past partner as a metaphorical killer for the heartbreak their relationship has caused her as a consequence. With the sweetest details, the artist explains the turbulence of her troubled mind, going back and forth to a love not worth keeping, which in many ways portrays a situation that many of us have been a victim to.
The sound in itself can only be described as a stripped-down yet revealing soundscape, shying away from her usual very dense music. Instead, with the help of Jimmy Napes and Amanda Ghost’s writing, she lets her vulnerable words form as a musical catharsis, accompanied by a hypotnic production by fka Twigs herself, Johnny Coffer and El Guincho.
FKA twigs’ KILLER is available to listen below.
