FKA twigs enlists Future and Nicolas Jaar for new Magdalene album

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The former Crack Magazine cover star confirms the details of her next album.

After releasing the stunning Andrew Thomas Huang-directed video for Cellophane in April, FKA twigs has finally confirmed the details of her second full-length album. In a new interview with i-D, the polymathic artist reveals that the album’s title is Magadalene. Produced alongside Nicolas Jaar, twigs has also collaborated with Future on the track Holy Terrain. While a full tracklist is yet to be revealed, the cover story confirms the songs 1000 Eyes, Sad Day, Home With You and Daybed.

On the album she says, “The record is about every lover that I’ve ever had, and every lover that I’m going to have… just when you think it’s really fragile and about to fall apart, there’s an absolute defiance and strength in a way that my work’s never had before”.

“I made it at a time when I was in recovery – physically and emotionally – and I think that comes through,” she adds.

On basing the album’s title on the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene, twigs elaborates, “No matter what you’re doing or how great your work is, sometimes it’s as though you have to be attached to a man to be validated. I’d felt like that at times. And then I started to read about Mary Magdalene and how amazing she was; how she was likely to have been Jesus’s best friend, his confidante. She was a herbalist and a healer, but, you know, her story is written out of the bible and she was ‘a prostitute’. I found a lot of power in the story of Mary Magdalene; a lot of dignity, a lot of grace, a lot of inspiration.”

Detailing her collaboration with Future, twigs describes the rapper’s verse as “beautiful”. “He’s just talking about his downfalls as a man; how he’s sorry and asking for healing,” she says. “I love sad Future. I love when he gets emo, when he expresses himself. It’s just so beautiful when he opens up.”

Magdalene is due for release this autumn. It’s set to be twigs’ first full-length project since 2014’s Mercury and Grammy-nominated album LP1.