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- Nov 21, 2025FKA twigs may have already made 2025 her own with Eusexua, but Eusexua Afterglow is far from an afterthought.
- Nov 14, 2025‘Afterglow’ might be ‘Eusexua’ offcuts, but FKA Twigs’ B-sides are so good they can outrank entire discographies. 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.
- Nov 14, 2025It may lack the pop-accented immediacy of ‘EUSEXUA’ tracks like ‘Perfect Stranger’ and ‘Room of Fools’, but there’s a surfeit of transcendent dance music on offer here, deftly undercut with a sensual, inventive, hi-definition approach that is always gesturing towards the future.
- Nov 14, 2025Where EUSEXUA is immaculate in its design, EUSEXUA Afterglow is the glorious unravelling. It’s hedonistic and messy, somehow both more lithe and more maximalist than its predecessor.
- Nov 13, 2025Afterglow’s 11 songs bleed into each other, linking each one to a loose narrative through line that extends from Euseuxa, but it’s twigs’s psyche that emerges as the album’s fulcrum.
- Nov 17, 2025While the two new records don't match up to the original’s mastery, scattered throughout both are glimmering moments of this carefree abandon and commitment to the bit. It's clear that twigs has never had quite so much fun.
- Dec 1, 2025Overall, it is an exciting era for FKA Twigs fans, as she continues her winning streak.
- Nov 13, 2025Admittedly, there’s nothing here as sticky as EUSEXUA’s “Sticky,” let alone “Childlike Things,” “Room of Fools” or “Drums of Death.” Afterglow is strongest when the beats are sickest, which is roughly midway through, when things peak with the tag-team of “Predictable Girl” and “Sushi,” a head rush of junglist bass growls and breakbeat abstracts.
- Nov 18, 2025There are highlights, sure (twigs is too preternaturally talented to avoid those completely), like the gleeful ‘Sushi’ or gorgeous closer ‘Stereo Boy’, but even the more compelling tracks like ‘Cheap Hotel’ – a satisfyingly eerie piece of slow-garage – would rank towards the bottom of EUSEXUA’s track-list. What’s odd is that we know twigs can do this style justice – she has an album from early this same year to prove it – so its bewildering to hear her deliver one unrewarding song after another.
