CAPRISONGS
A bright, buoyant mixtape blending avant-garde electronic production with Afrobeats, trap, and contemporary R&B. Intimate voice memos meet high-energy club pop.
A bright, buoyant mixtape blending avant-garde electronic production with Afrobeats, trap, and contemporary R&B. Intimate voice memos meet high-energy club pop.
Playful transition
Giggling voice memos and warm, humid Afrobeats spill out of a late-night cab window. This music trades heavy, dark-room tension for bright, elastic club pop and shared secrets. You are invited into a loose, sunlit bedroom where sharp trap beats and soft, auto-tuned whispers feel like a long talk with a best friend.
Departing from her signature operatic gravity, a bright and playful energy takes center stage here, transforming her usual avant-garde intensity into a buoyant, late-night celebration of friendship.
Critics generally welcomed this vibrant shift toward a lighter, more playful sound, warmly praising the mixtape's adventurous genre-blending and accessible charm. While some reviewers felt the varied collection occasionally lacked structural cohesion and sharp hooks, most appreciated it as a refreshing, lighthearted evolution of her artistry.
“The U.K. avant-pop star fights trauma and darkness with the most buoyant music of her career”Read review
“Small blemishes aside, CAPRISONGS is cool, calm, composed, and immediately apparent”Read review
“The singer’s new mixtape is a playful and adventurous flex, full of errant, shapeshifting compositions that flirt with choral music and Afrobeats, schoolyard chants and squeak-rapping”Read review
“The left-field singer makes a bid for the mainstream with hook-centric pop that centres on self-knowledge not trauma”Read review
“The British singer trades in fragility for strength on her latest and most collaborative project”Read review
“After the emotional toll of making 2019’s ‘Magdalene’ this varied collection shows a new side to the once unattainable star”Read review
“FKA twigs expands her collection of calling cards on the dreamily constructed Caprisongs mixtape”Read review
“Caprisongs is light on its feet and more accessible than her tricksier electronic work but, whether she’s delivering dancehall, hip-house, afrobeat or drill, almost all of these are songs which could have only have been made by twigs”Read review
“Given time and careful attention, this new mixtape unfurls to reveal the richest and catchiest melodies twigs has written so far”Read review
“Darkness turns to light in Tahliah Barnett’s follow-up to 2019 LP Magdalene but, even so, it’s an adventurous but undercharged effort missing hooks and cohesion”Read review
“If MAGDALENE was an encapsulation of FKA twigs’ internal storm, CAPRISONGS is the sunrise after the fact, brilliant and vibrant as ever”Read review
“’CAPRISONGS’ is a necessarily selfish project, and one which invites listeners to revel in all its joys and sorrows”Read review
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