We’ve seen underground club-culture-inspired albums take hold of the music industry in recent years, from Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE, Charli xcx’s BRAT, and, next in line: FKA twigs’ EUSEXUA.
EUSEXUA is a way of living and feeling, often described as the peak of human experience. In the EUSEXUA music video, FKA twigs shares this idea, inspired by her time in Prague’s rave scene, twigs incorporated the atmospheric visuals like industrial and warehouse rave aesthetics, hypnotic choreography, and vibrant lighting transitions that echo the intensity and liberation of underground raves that shaped her vision for EUSEXUA. Similar to her earlier, more experimental works such as EP1, EP2, LP1, and M3LL155X, she taps back into her electronic and experimental opus for this new album, but with a newer and more refined touch.
Similar to her earlier, more experimental works such as EP1, EP2, LP1, and M3LL155X, she taps back into her electronic and experimental opus for this new album, but with a newer and more refined touch. FKA twigs crafted a philosophy for her album and introduced a word we didn’t know we needed: Eusexua (pronounced “you-sekshu-ah”). In an interview with Margeaux (@marg.mp3), she described it as “the pure human experience, a moment of clarity, the moment before an amazing idea.” It’s a feeling we can all relate to—perhaps this word might even make its way into dictionaries someday.
The Czech Origins of EUSEXUA
The dance-club-adjacent tone in FKA twigs’ discography is nothing new, but this latest era introduces a fresh Eastern European influence. An experience she has summed up in an Instagram post: “EUSEXUA was birthed in chicken scratch, written on the back of my hand in a toilet at a rave in Prague…” What an interesting adventure it must have been to produce an album.
Karolína Fialová, a Czech photographer, describes the rave scene in Prague as not just a party, but a performance; holding raves in the most unusual locations such as banks, theatres, old dining halls, or university buildings–all aspects that make sense of EUSEXUA’s philosophy, which Twigs herself experienced raving while working on the filming of The Crow in Prague.
The EUSEXUA Look
Not even that deep into the EUSEXUA era, it’s already an iconic era in the making, but FKA twigs have also debuted a new hairstyle that made everyone turn their heads. A skullet is a hairstyle that completely shaves the front part of the head, leaving only the back part of the hair long–an extreme version of the traditional mullet. Louis Souvestre, FKA twigs’ hairstylist, told Dazed Beauty that the look was inspired by 1970s children in northeast Africa with shaved fronts and upward braids, honoring twigs’ heritage.
Numerous iterations of the hairstyle were debuted: locs, ringlets reminiscent of 15th-century hairstyles, and a complex updo referencing Nefertiti’s crown. The skullet was paired with bold facial markings, painted by makeup artist Matilda Mace. These designs, centered on twigs’ face, often extended up to the crown of her head. On TikTok, she explained, “If you asked me why I experiment with facial markings… I’d say it’s iconic AF.”
The First Offering
Before releasing the single Eusexua, FKA twigs previewed her album at several events: Valentino’s October 2023 show, the 2024 Met Gala afterparty, a New York listening party, and finally on September 13, 2024, when the single and its music video debuted.
Eusexua features an electronic sound reminiscent of the late 90s’ dark, with thumping bass and haunting background vocals sung by Eartheater. Produced by Koreless, FKA twigs, and Eartheater, Eusexua’s sound contrasts the iconic BRAT summer–dubbed by fans as the EUSEXUA fall, a darker tone apt for the season’s moodier disposition. From an office flash mob to a dystopian landscape where Twigs crawls about, the music video is a visual feast, complete with choreographies you want to learn and outfits you want in your closet yesterday.
Eusexua is the key song of the album’s philosophy. ”Words cannot describe, baby / this feeling deep inside”; this exclamation of uncertainty in what appropriate term to use gave way to the coining of the word eusexua. “And if they ask you, say you feel it / But don’t call it love, Eusexua”.
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Future offerings from EUSEXUA
Slated for a January 24, 2025 release, the release date leaves the fans wanting more after getting a taste of what’s to come. Fortunately, FKA twigs has performed the majority of the album’s songs in a special performance for ON, a sportswear brand twigs collaborated with. In the performance, Eusexua, Striptease, Room of Fools, 24 Hr Dog, Girls Feel Good were performed, and lastly, Drums of Death which was also heard in the Eusexua music video was released on November 15.
With these songs previewed, FKA twigs gave a better perspective of how the album is going to sound–similar to the ethereal yet electrifying sound of Madonna’s Ray of Light and Björk’s Homogenic. twigs is truly taking it with this album. Constantly pushing boundaries and pursuing new heights in her craft, EUSEXUA is one of the albums to watch out for in 2025 and it truly couldn’t be harder for fans to thirst for new FKA twigs music.
