CAPRISONGS

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Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Warner Chappell Publishing / Rico Publishing, Young Songs Limited / Sony Music Publishing, Teo Lucas Halm Publishing Designee CAPRISONGS is executive produced by FKA twigs and El Guincho and features production from FKA twigs, El Guincho, Koreless, P2J, Mike Dean, Marius de Vries, Jasper Harris, Teo Halm, Arca, FRED, Psymun, Cirkut, BKay, Reaper, Sega Bodega, Fake Guido, Pau, Felix Joseph, AoD, Jeff Kleinman, Warren Ellis, Jonathan Coffer and BAK. Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Warner Chappell Publishing / Rico Publishing, Promised Land Music Ltd. / Universal Music Publishing Group Ltd (GMR), Divine Ikubor Publishing Designee, Richard Isong Publishing Designee Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Mutant1000000 Music / Downtown Music Publishing (ASCAP), Tobias Jesso Jr. Publishing Designee Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.

Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Warner Chappell Publishing / Rico Publishing, Teo Lucas Halm Publishing Designee

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Making music to feel good may not sound like a revolutionary ethos for a pop album, but it subverts the very essence of FKA twigs’ previous output. When we last heard from her in 2019, with her sophomore release MAGDALENE , she was creating “pop,” but drenched the genre in the uncanny and grotesque, and drowned it in the pain she was going through at the time. Instead of staying in that darkness, comprised of health challenges and physical and emotional trauma , three years later, twigs has returned with CAPRISONGS : a project that centers joy. Contains an interpolation of "You're Not Alone" (T. Kellett / R. Taylor-Firth). Used by permission. But although friskiness is very much on her mind, it’s impossible to hear Caprisongs without reference to trauma. Just over a year ago, twigs – born Tahliah Debrett Barnett – went public with a lawsuit against her former partner, an infamous US actor, for sexual battery, assault and infliction of emotional distress. If twigs’s previous album, Magdalene (2019), was a conceptual deep-dive into the historical figure of Mary Magdalene conducted through left-field digitals, Caprisongs collates a set of more ephemeral pop tunes in which twigs broadcasts selfhood 17 ways, finding unexpected common sonic ground with artists such as Grimes, Charli XCX and Self Esteem. Magdalene pivoted around a neglected herstory; Caprisongs is both intimately autobiographical and keen to display how twigs, until now something of a cult figure, is actually very much up for wider worship.

Smith’s performance is a standout on Caprisongs; the rest of the collaborations yield mixed results. The Afrobeats single “jealousy” is the most easygoing song of the lot, but seems basic in comparison to everything else; Nigerian singer Rema’s appearance is nice but unremarkable. The gospel-tinged “careless,” with Canadian R&B singer Daniel Caesar, features some divine harmonies but is ultimately too slow-moving and tasteful. More fun-loving is the Shygirl-assisted “papi bones,” which sounds like a hammy SoundCloud remix of Y2K dancehall, air horns and all. If twigs’ objective was to stop overthinking and simply try out ideas in the studio, then “papi bones” preserves a nice spontaneity. Over a year ago, twigs filed a lawsuit accusing her ex-boyfriend of abuse, and her 2019 album MAGDALENE was, in part, about the racist vitriol she experienced from outsiders in a prior relationship. She has spoken about her desire to be written about as her own entity, not attached to a partner: “My work was so beautiful. It was so much louder than my love life. It is so much louder.” Caprisongs is the sound of twigs in the driver’s seat as she traverses her own curiosities and instincts; there is no man looming over the music, no weighty public narrative dictating its terrain. It is intrepid and light, the image of a woman attuned to planetary alignments but casting her own fate. Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Warner Chappell Publishing / Rico Publishing, Rainbow Party Music / Ark Music / Administered by Concord (BMI), Young Songs Limited / Sony Music Publishing, Daniel Lena Publishing Designee, Sony ATV Music Publishing (UK) LImited, Concord Music Publishing / Eagle-I Music Limited (PRS) / Sony/ATV Music Publishing Allegro UK (PRS)

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The first single, The Weeknd-featuring “tears in the club,” is a catchy anthem for healing through dance, with a hypnotizing video featuring cathartic revelry. Another standout, “honda,” also comes early in the record, with FKA twigs leaning into a rap cadence to match fellow British artist Pa Salieu. Later on the mixtape, MAGDALENE -esque “minds of men” is a return to floating falsetto form for twigs. Even with its moments of melancholy, as a whole, the project has a buoyancy that LP1 and MAGDALENE never reached. FKA Twigs is releasing her Caprisongs mixtape on vinyl for the first time, via Young this September. A surprising and refreshing "album" from twigs, that sounds like she is having the absolute time of her life recording this fun collection. Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Warner Chappell Publishing / Rico Publishing, Young Songs Limited / Sony Music Publishing, Mark Anthony Spears Publishing Designee, Jeff Kleinman Publishing Designee

Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Tobias Jesso Jr. Publishing Designee, Rainbow Party Music / Ark Music / Administered by Concord (BMI), Daniel Caesar Publishing Designee Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Cirkut Breaker LLC / Prescription Songs (ASCAP). All rights administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Mutant1000000 Music / Downtown Music Publishing (ASCAP), Warner Chappell Publishing / Rico Publishing, Ali Tamposi Publishing Designee, KMR Music Royalties II SCSp, Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP) Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Warner Chappell Publishing / Rico Publishing, Pablo Martinez Alborch Publishing Designee, Jonathan Coffer Publishing Designee, Amanda Ghost Publishing Designee, Blaine Muise Publishing Designee Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Mike Dean Publishing Designee, Tobias Jesso Jr. Publishing Designee Originally released earlier this year in January, Caprisongs features contributions from The Weeknd, Jorja Smith, Pa Salieu, Rema, Shygirl, Unknown T and Daniel Caesar.But many of these tunes do deal in deeper self-understanding, often through the prism of astrology. “Sagimoon, Pisceveen… Caprisun,” specifies the standout Meta Angel (“Pisceveen” means, at a guess, Venus in Pisces). The outro to Oh My Love declares the importance of knowing your worth, of a piece with Self Esteem’s recent LP Prioritise Pleasure. The dreamy music-box tune Lightbeamers starts like a series of notes to self: “Did you give yourself away, again? Don’t do it again.” The album features a ton of songs played across all Australian community radio stations, triple j and by any club DJ worth their salt. Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Warren Ellis Publishing Designee, Young Songs Limited / Sony Music Publishing Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, Warner Chappell Publishing / Rico Publishing, Felix Joseph Publishing Designee, Alastair O'Donnell Publishing Designee, Pa Salieu Gaye Publishing Designee, Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd. (PRS)