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GossipJan 14, 2022

The Mixtape Didn't Ask

FKA twigs put the club on a mixtape, and the kitchen already had the aux.

FKA twigs didn’t wait for the album cycle to forgive her. CAPRISONGS landed as a mixtape, not a monument. “honda” is the window-cracked one already, rain on the hi-hats and Pa Salieu in the passenger seat, and “meta angel” is the come-up after MAGDALENE’s wound.

Then come “oh my love,” “pamplemousse,” and “tears in the club” with The Weeknd like a dare to the radio. This is not the funeral. This is the afters, and the kitchen already had the aux.