The album opens on the title track, Eusexua, with the sound of a heartbeat rushing blood into your ears, while Twig’s inimitable floating soprano assures us “you’re not alone”.
“Experiencing techno music there and developing a deeper relationship with dance music,” she told the Standard, “it was on the dance floor that I felt Eusexua.”.
That’s the joy-filled through-line of Eusexua, FKA Twig’s third studio album.
Eusexua is her own invention to describe “that moment of nothingness just before a big surge of inspiration or creativity or passion.
Sometimes the best way to process trauma isn’t introspection and rage, but to go to the club and dance things out.