I know it is so incredibly FKA Twigs. It's glitchy art-poppy, experimental, and yearning. I am just a bit disappointed - I was hoping for more dance-y techno. This work is more of a meditation on rave culture - it is not in itself an embodiment of rave culture. I cannot imagine any of these playing in a warehouse save for the couple of tracks that descend into drum and bass. I guess I'll wait for the remixes...

Obviously love Drums of death. Girl Feels Good is trip-hop earcandy.

Very cohesive piece as a body of work. Savage's critiques of consumerism will never get old! He finds new ways to lament capitalism with each new release.

Favourite tracks: Before the Water Gets Too High, Almost Had to Start A Fight / In and Out of Patience.

STAPLE!!

Postpunk and its discontents. So many bops - love the variety in this album.

This album played on repeat when I worked in a basement thrift store. Simpler times.

Had a chance to see them live in 2019 but I didn't go...flop! I wish I was in the moshpit for Light Up Gold II and Borrowed Time.

Inspires me to keep hating on society and it's discontents.

Favourite track: Content Nausea, Slide Machine.

staple album. every song is incredibly nostalgic.

My favourite project from FKA Twigs. This mixtape is incredibly versatile. She does her classic ballad art-pop with Meta Angel and Lightbeamers; then takes more confident strides into fizzy pop with Which Way and Pomplemousse; she even experiments with afro-beats in Jealousy and Papi Bones. Twigs is equal parts introspective and extroverted in this. Its clear she sincerely came out of her shell to experiment with all these distinct genres. Her best work to date!

Bangers after bangers. Serious staple for every DJ. Living for this thick synthy bass.

Favourite track is.... TEACHERS! Underrated bop.

Moody. Atmospheric. Sultry… This album is a trip-hop staple.

Something you can fuck to. Something you can cry to. Something you can yearn to.

Every song is very distinct and memorable to me.

Favourites tracks: Sour Times, Strangers, Glory Box.

Brilliant, bold, and tender. It's a girl's girl album. Unmatched lyricism as always.

Favourite tracks: Relay, Ladies, and Drumset.

Such a staple album!!

My parents excluded 80s pop and post-punk from my music education. I found this as a lil tumblr kid in 2014. Now having grown up and expanded my music vocabulary, I revisit this album and realize Craft Spells was influenced by Joy Division and Cocteau Twins. Interesting that this was my intro to shoegaze! I appreciate Idle Labour so much more now that I understand where it is sonically situated as a genre.

Favourite tracks: Your Tomb, Ramona, You Should Close the Door.

Björks lyrics are Introspective and insightful. She is raw, unapologetic, and feminine.

Her production is meticulous. She captures micro-sounds - foot prints in the snow, white noise, music boxes - to create a sonic landscape with perceptible depth. A landscape that is large enough to hold the smallest whisper in your lovers ear and the loudest ballad sung from an icy cliff.

“Cocoon” is one of my favourite tracks - orgasming, love, and pillow talk.
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Was not expecting Madonna to have an album that was so trip-hop. It’s a nice balance of energetic disco-esque tracks mixed with down-tempo sultry effervescent ballads.

This album is raw, sexy, possessive, vengeful, taboo… it’s for a playboy bunny going through a break-up. At times the lyrics are a little (naive) campy but goddamn it’s fun. Very much ahead of its time. Legendary.

I think she invented pussy-eating with “Where Life Begins.”