FKA twigs Essentials

FKA twigs pursued dual careers in music and dance as a youth, and those twinned influences are apparent in her songs, which rely on skeletal beats and her fluttery voice to create a feeling of perpetual motion. That movement can veer into gorgeous and harrowing places: Twigs’ 2014 breakout single “Two Weeks” is a master class in electro-R&B minimalism, its skittering drums and glassy synths providing a bed for her controlled ecstasy. Meanwhile, the slowly encroaching paranoia of “In Time” ticks up with the help of claustrophobically doubled vocals and relentless snare fills.