EUSEXUA, FKA twigs’ latest project (and made-up word) made its first appearance during Valentino’s Spring/Summer 2024 show at Paris Fashion Week. Premiering the record’s title track, twigs reconstructed the runway into an intimate underworld. She and her dancers, clad in raw, skin-like tones, moved through a landscape of shifting sand—an eerie, sensual interplay between the organic and the avant-garde, alluding to an imminent sensory feast.

Spanning 11 tracks, EUSEXUA serves as twigs’ third studio album, strung between a series of singles, EPs, and a mixtape. Born from an indescribable sensation, she explains EUSEXUA as “the pinnacle of human experience,” guiding listeners toward the understanding of this sensation by the final breath of “Wanderlust,” the album’s eloquent closer. It’s an ambitious concept, one only few could execute, but she pulls it off with expert finesse.

That aforementioned finesse is a direct reflection of her obsessive craftsmanship, where every detail feels strictly examined and fully realized. “Striptease,” one of the album’s starkest moments, feels purpose-built for a brutalist venue, its harsh edges and smoldering intensity designed to reverberate through concrete walls and smoke-filled air. Conversely, “Girl Feels Good” tributes Madonna’s “Candy Perfume Girl” (of 2001’s Ray of Light) in a fashion that feels equally as enchanting.

Throughout EUSEXUA, twigs bends sound into shapes both alluring and unsettling, each track slipping through different emotional states like a feverish dream. “Sticky” and “24hr Dog” drift as ethereal ballads, their lush, auto-tuned layers whispering of desire, their sensuality both soft and unnervingly distant. “Room of Fools” takes a sharp turn, pounding with a visceral, almost violent energy—its uptempo rhythm cutting through the air with a frantic, experimental edge that feels as disorienting as it is exhilarating. Then there’s “Drums of Death,” a chaotic glitch-fest of pounding drums and distorted vocals that feels less like a song and more like an all-consuming sensory breakdown. FKA twigs leaves the listener suspended between moments of clarity and chaos, forcing them to navigate these feelings in a world that is just as unpredictable, immersive, and undeniably addicting.