FKA Twigs says she struggled to explain and promote ‘Eusexua’

FKA Twigs has shed light on the difficulties she faced in promoting ‘Eusexua’.

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The British singer-songwriter spoke to ELLE UK recently, and looked back to the creation of ‘Eusexua‘ – which NME hailed a “transcendent artistic experience”. In the interview, she said the timing of the record’s arrival felt like a hurdle in the album rollout, because it came at a time she felt the world was being particularly cynical.

“Every moment is taken up with stress, social media, good news, bad news, money, noise, travelling, buses, screens, adverts, buying things,” she said of modern life. “When a new idea appears, or an experience is put upon us, we’re not always ready to embrace that thing with open arms.

“Trying to explain ‘Eusexua’ in a world that, at the moment, is in so much pain and, therefore, so cynical – people can almost take that as, like, a personal attack,” she said. She also touched on the reaction to her hiatus after undergoing laparoscopic surgery to remove six large fibroid tumours.

“People were like, ‘Where did Twigs go?’” she recalled. “I went through this crazy thing that, it turns out, so many women go through.”

FKA Twigs ‘EUSEXUA’ album artwork. CREDIT: Press

In the same interview, she also opened up about balancing “brutal and violent” experiences with artistry, months after settling her Shia LaBeouf assault suit.

“I’m reaching that age where I can really look back at my life, and I can see so many things that have been beautiful and amazing, and other things that have been really brutal and violent,” she reflected.

“I’m realising that I can hold my love of life and my artistry and the beauty of my life, and I can also hold the brutality and the sadness and the violence,” she continued. “I can hold things at the same time, and that feels really good.”

The musician has been open in the past about allegedly experiencing violence throughout a former relationship with LaBeouf. She sued the Transformers actor in December 2020, accusing him of physical and verbal abuse, sexual battery and emotional distress.

LaBeouf has consistently denied Twigs’ allegations of abuse. His lawyers responded at the time of the suit by saying he did not cause her harm, and the actor has said he denied “each and every allegation” raised against him.

Back in July, she dropped her assault and sexual battery lawsuit and settled the case outside of court, with attorneys for each saying they wished each other “personal happiness, professional success, and peace in the future”.

FKA Twigs. Credit: Jordan Hemingway

Later this year, the singer-songwriter will head out on the road in Europe, where she’s due to play a run of arena concerts in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin in June this summer. These follow a North American leg in the spring, with only one stop set for the UK on the ‘Body High’ trek, when she takes to the stage at London’s O2 on June 10. You’ll be able to buy your tickets here – while tickets for the US and Canada shows will be available here.

Meanwhile, the ‘Eusexua’ track ‘Room Of Fools’ has landed at Number 25 on NME‘s 50 best songs of 2025 list.

We also gave the record a glowing five-star review, writing: “Twigs has successfully shown that the connection of music, movement, mind, soul and body can be converted into sound”, while it’s follow-up, ‘…Afterglow’, earned four stars: “Does it live up to the lofty marketing of its predecessor? Perhaps not. But it still proves that Twigs is one of the most prolific and original alt-pop icons of our times.”

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