Photo Courtesy of FKA twigs
By: Wyatt Westlake
FKA twigs has released a new single “Killer” via Atlantic Records and Young. The song was written by twigs, Jimmy Napes, Amanda Ghost, and Jonny Coffer and produced by twigs, Coffer, and El Guincho. The song “explores the inner turmoil of heartbreak and a love so deep it’s lethal.” In a press release, she explains:
‘“It’s dangerous to be a woman in love’ - when at its worst the effects of heart break can define one’s trajectory much more than the beauty of the love itself, in my song ‘Killer’ I explore this concept. The navigation, the hunt and the kill. The death of promises, dreams and the future that was once promised. But like the wildest plucked roses, I find myself more beautiful, delicately wilted, in shadow, forced solace, darkened at the edges and achingly thirsting to be tended to again.”
“Killer” follows the release of FKA twigs’s acclaimed mixtape CAPRISONGS, which came out back in January, and had a host of impressive features including The Weeknd, Pa Salieu, Jorja Smith, Rema, Daniel Caesar, among others. Recently, she performed the new single in a new Tiny Desk Concert for NPR Music.
In addition to “Killer,” FKA twigs is slated to star alongside Bill Skarsgård in a Rupert Sanders-directed reimagining of THE CROW based on the original graphic novel by James O’Barr.