It gives the whole song a threatening feel, especially taken with FKA Twigs’ demands to stop playing with other girls. How does FKA Twigs reinforce these feelings instrumentally? In songs like “I’m Your Doll,” producer BOOTS incorporates the use of noise, breaking up the song with blasts of dissonance.

So M3LL155X deals with conflict, a sense of not knowing yourself. A lot of the lyrics on this release come across as dealing with a boyfriend, but I’m a bit infatuated with the idea that the conflictual relationship exists between Melissa and FKA Twigs - partly because of all the strange vocal effects going on throughout the EP, and partly to make the mentions of mother on “Mothercreep” fit in with the rest of the album. Throughout the album, FKA Twigs deals with a conflictual relationship (“I be feeling the same / In the club, in the rave / Everyday, everyday / You be testing my sane”) and the desire to improve oneself (“You are phoenix, you are fire, you are everything / I just want for you to love you”). FKA Twigs has always explored emotions like desire and jealousy in the past, but focusing on her energy allows her to write songs with an emotional directness that I really enjoy. So the big idea here: Melissa ( M3LL155X) is the name for FKA Twigs’ female energy, and this EP is an exploration of that side of her. M3LL155X builds on the strengths of LP1, but offers the sense of dynamism and pure excitement that stretches of LP1 lacked. LP1 showed a ton of promise, full of beautiful vocal arrangements and an ethereal mix of R&B and trip-hop - but too often it was too focused on creating atmosphere, causing the songs to feel sluggish and unfocused. Just over a year on from her debut album LP1, FKA Twigs’ kind-of-surprise EP M3LL155X sees her taking a bolder, riskier take on the alternative R&B sound she’s developed in her career so far.

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