FKA Twigs - (2013) FKA Twigs 12''

This release, a second four-track EP following her 2012 debut, triggers a dual feeling of being buried in her suffering and a sense of relief that her music provides an outlet for it all. Comparisons to trip-hop have come quickly in twigs' short career, most of them justified. Twigs is only in her mid 20s, but EP2 is the sound of someone who has lived a lifetime in their own head, and is now letting it spill out publicly in its oddly open-yet-guarded way. There's a sense of watching her grow in public, too.