Twigs: "How's That"

The music video really has reclaimed its perch as a premier format for experimental short films, this after a couple decades of purely functional eye candy being de rigueur for the form (note that there remains plenty of dull, obligatory visuals, particularly in the hip hop and indie rock categories). Twigs' "How's That" matches baby girl's haunting vocals with production by Arca and a clip by Jesse Kanda. How's that for matching talent with talent?

Twigs: "Ache"

If we're going to recognize the legitimacy of "cloud rap" then surely in the brief time of its ascent it has already been eclipsed by "cloud soul", an ethereal dream pop version of R&B kickstarted a year or so ago by The Weeknd and since paraded through a procession of compatible sub-genres: witch house, ambient, noise pop, etc. The latest to fly the flag is Twigs, an R&B chanteuse of unknown origin who is releasing her second single without bothering to establish a public identity to underline her first.