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What is eusexua? “Eusexua is the feeling that I’m that bitch,” offers make-up artist Joe Brooks in the announcement trailer for FKA Twigs’ new album eusexua, which is directed by boyfriend Jordan Hemingway and replete with members of her creative inner circle. “Right before an orgasm,” suggests model Amelia Gray, while multimedia artist Parma Ham explains it feels “like you’ve just reached your destination.”
Also present to offer up definitions for the nebulous concept are paraplegic pole dancer Andrew Gregory (“eusexua is trust in your body”), New York-based performer No Bra (“express myself better, create something without using the generally available language”) and American DJ and performance artist Chadd Curry (“eusexua is oxygen”). The word appears to have been coined by Twigs herself, and derived from the prefix ‘eu-’, Ancient Greek for ‘well’ or ‘good’ (e.g. ‘euphoria’), and suffix ‘-sexua’, which probably doesn’t need explaining. Together, the word suggests an almost orgasmic transcendence, achieved through sex or otherwise.
This concept is complemented by shots of couple Rosario and Enantios Dromos kissing in the trailer, as well as the breakbeat soundtrack which interpolates ‘eusexua’ as a vocal sample. FKA twigs herself first teased the album back in January of this year in a string of Discord posts, in which she explained that eusexua was born amid a newfound love for techno after relocating to Prague “a couple of summers ago.”
The album follows twigs‘ award-winning 2022 release Caprisongs and was telegraphed just days before with a video of twigs self-skulleting, along with the caption “are you ready to discover?” “I’m not ready for the person I will become after listening to this record”, commented one fan on the announcement, to which Twigs responded, “skullet, obvs.”
Eusexua is set to release September 13