Today’s song of the day is “Two Weeks” by FKA Twigs, a.k.a. Tahlia Barnett, a half-Jamaican native of Gloucestershire. “Two Weeks” is off the album LP1, which was released in the summer of 2014. Alongside collaborations with Arca, Dev Hynes, Sampha, and Paul Epworth, the album also features more production work by Barnett herself.
Surrounded by farmland during her teens, she studied ballet and sang on tracks recorded at a studio in a Jamaican youth club. By the time she was 16, Twigs — whose nickname comes from how loudly she can crack her bones — began writing songs in earnest; though she moved to London to pursue a career as a dancer at 17, and appeared in videos for songs by Jessie J, Ed Sheeran, Kylie Minogue, and Taio Cruz, among others, she soon realized she really wanted to be a professional musician.
Along with working as a bartender, Twigs spent as much time in the studio as possible and ultimately self-released her self-titled EP in 2012 via Bandcamp. After changing her moniker to FKA Twigs at the request of another artist named Twigs, she returned with EP2, a striking set of songs featuring production from Kanye West collaborator Arca. Late that year, FKA Twigs was nominated for the BBC’s Sound of 2014 prize (which Sam Smith ultimately won).
EP2 was released in the U.S. in May 2014. A few months later, the more lavish-sounding single “Two Weeks” announced the arrival of FKA Twigs’ simply named debut album, LP1.
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