I have been re-listening to the first album by FKA twigs again for several weeks after seeing her at parklife and think that I gave the album a bit of a short shrift on its release.

This stripped back and sexually charged R&B comes across as a fresh and exiting alternative to most modern pop music and the whole album is full of tracks that manage to feel part of a unified sound and still work well as singles.

Pendulum has twisting and filtered percussive sounds which leave the voice as the single melodic content which makes the choruses filled with rich piano chords and guitar stand out as a refreshing counterpoint: