An echo chamber of foghorn beats and sub-bass produces a feeling of being on the cusp of emergence and F/X direct Melissa into the track's most confrontational moment. "In Vogue, everything is a figure 8," she recently explained to Complex, about "learning to love yourself," and triggers the birth of her female energy spirit, Melissa. "Let me live," she refrains after a guttural groan reverberates something resembling a death rattle, and actress Michele Lamy swallows an esca to kickstart the lifecycle. There's a rough edge to the crescendo on in time and figure 8 that amplify and fall at the point of twigs' vocal climaxes. The hallmarks of her sound are heightened by language that is spare and sinewy. Collaborating with Tic, BOOTS, and Cy An, a bridge of loud, abrasive, and industrial music runs directly into the linear narrative of the short film. Shunning the quietude and sense of space from 'LP1', 'M3LL155X' is a return to her punk roots existing in maximal electronica. It's tempting to read 'M3LL155X' as a reply to her detractors, but, more appropriately this is twigs empowered by her trials and exacting control of her standing. In the same month of a pathetic rap feud, twigs too is charged up. "Look a little harder / Shut your eyes and feel the rush," she whispers while assaulting the intimacy with splattering shots of broken beats. However, it also shows twigs is more persuasive in a smaller setting, extending the abstractions of 'EP2'. Twigs has created an image of herself that is inseparable from her artistry and the theory of twigs as an auteur is indicated by this visual album.
So are we watching her? Yes, of course, we are. Exactly a year on from ' LP1' there is a sense that twigs still has to prove (to some) her authenticity as an artist ahead of her personal relationships while robbing her of the serious consideration she deserves. The surprise EP arrives a week after an interviewer pressed Tahliah Barnett on her private life and further disclosure of her targeted online racist abuse. "Am I dancing sexy yet? / Are you watching me 'cause I move alone?" asks FKA Twigs on glass & patron, the lead single of 'M3LL155X'.
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