FKA twigs is a singer, songwriter, and producer from London. She’s released three EPs and two albums. Her most album, Magdalene, came out in November, 2019, and was named one of the best albums of the year by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Time, NME, and more.

For this episode, twigs chose the song "Mirrored Heart" from Magdalene. She wrote and produced it in Los Angeles with a few collaborators, but it’s an intensely personal song.

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Tame Impala is the project of Kevin Parker, a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from Perth, Australia. Since putting his first EP in 2008, Tame Impala has been nominated for two Grammys and won eight of Australia’s ARIA Awards. Multiple albums of his have been named best of the year. As a producer, he has collaborated with Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, The Weeknd, and more. The most recent Tame Impala album is The Slow Rush, which came out in February 2020. For this episode, Kevin chose to take apart the song, "It Might Be Time."

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Laura Marling is a singer and songwriter from London. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist—she’s been nominated five times for that, along with the Mercury Prize, and the Grammy for Best Folk Album. Since 2008, she’s released seven albums. The most recent album is called Song for Our Daughter. It’s also the name of the song that she takes apart in this episode.

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Can we prove that God does exist?

We have been separated from God because of our sin. God created us to be with Him. The plan of salvation is about how to get back into the presence of God.

Do we know that our Christianity is authentic? We get preoccupied with the actions and forget about our attitude. Part 1 of 2

Do we know that our Christianity is authentic? We get preoccupied with the actions and forget about our attitude. Part 2 of 2

The devil attacks stragglers, those who are on the edge of living a Christian life.

Jesus said there will be a time of great trouble before He comes again. Do not worry about getting through it. He promised to be with us.

How can we triumph despite our trials? Why does God allow difficult things to happen?

Why does God make us love our families so much even though every family has an element of "baggage" and varying degrees of challenges?

Some people want to be Christians but they believe the wrong source. Part 1 of 2

What is prayer? How important is prayer? How do we pray?

There are many differences in Christian church doctrines. If there is anything that is most essential to understand, it would be what God's Ten Commandments say. The Sabbath is one of the Commandments.

The Trinity is one of the deepest and most profound subjects that we can explore. This message will help to clear up some of the mysteries of the Trinity.

The Lord says He is coming and that He's coming quickly. What can we know about Jesus' return? Part 2 of 2

The book of Revelation is about Jesus. He is the central figure and hero. Part 1 of 2

God says we are to treat our bodies as a temple of the Holy Spirit and to not defile our bodies. Part 1 of 2

God says we are to treat our bodies as a temple of the Holy Spirit and to not defile our bodies. Part 2 of 2

The book of Revelation is about Jesus. He is the central figure and hero. Part 2 of 2

Who do the women and the beasts in Daniel and Revelation represent? Part 1 of 2

How much trouble do we bring into our lives when we compromise how we know we should live? Part 1 of 3

Who do the women and the beasts in Daniel and Revelation represent? Part 2 of 2

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i have search in comments for a long while and I found few people asking for titles, but with out any response :( but I ask below video and try here to have more chance. thanks for concern ;) no one have idea what is that music?

Hi all I have the EQ article and did a proto a few years ago, sounded very nice, typically 70s, fat, big sound. I only have part 5 (Nov 71), does anyone have the others on a dusty shelf? I'm guessing Aug 71 til Jan/Feb 72. The series was writ ...

People, please help me to discover one electro-sound which is in background of the Speaker voice about cars and tourism in my country... I had ripped video and than transformed that in mp3... Ive putted it in an attachment... please help :cry:

Welcome the the forums! :welcome: Here is how to post a YouTube video: 1. Open the video in YouTube. 2. Click on the Share link below the video. 3. Click on the Embed tab (directly below the Share link). 4. Press CTRL+C to copy the ...

Oh, and a link to the music, or something uploaded to the site here would help too :-)

Yep all sorted. Many thanks!

Thanks. It just seems odd that it's exactly every 7th chromatic note. Seems like too big a coincidence. Anyway, may have to buy a new one. Cheers, CAM

HI everyone, I have started a forum over on cigar box nation about a circuit for electrify a banjo. Does anyone here have experience with designing circuits for passive and active guitars, in particular using piezo transducer? The main thing I n ...

Yes, that is how it works - advantage being that you can see your message was being read .. erm .. seen .. erm .. opened. Glad I could solve it this easy :lol: