FKA twigs will release her second studio album later this year.
Magdalene is set to be FKA twigs’ first since 2014’s Mercury Prize-nominated debut album LP1, though there have been a series of singles and guest appearances during the intervening time. It’s been launched with an interview for i_D. “No matter what you’re doing or how great your work is, sometimes it’s as though you have to be attached to a man to be validated,” she says.
“I’d felt like that at times. And then I started to read about Mary Magdalene and how amazing she was; how she was likely to have been Jesus’s best friend, his confidante.”
“She was a herbalist and a healer, but, you know, her story is written out of the bible and she was ‘a prostitute’. I found a lot of power in the story of Mary Magdalene; a lot of dignity, a lot of grace, a lot of inspiration.”