Gloucestershire-born singer-songwriter FKA Twigs teased fans earlier today with the possibility of a new mixtape. Taking to her Instagram account, she posted a selfie with the following promising caption: “might make a mixtape, might.” The Mercury Prize nominee has 1.7m followers on her Instagram account alone, and her latest post has accrued over 116,000 likes in 19 hours, with the majority of comments being variations of the same pitch of fan excitement: “YESSS,” “DO IT!!!!!” and “DO IT OMFG DO IT PLEASE,” just to cite a few examples.

Born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, the 32-year-old artist is currently riding the wave of praise and popularity inspired by her second studio album, last year’s MAGDALENE. Given the five-year gap between that Billboard Top 50 placeholder – ranking #19 among best albums of the year – and her debut, 2014’s LP1, excitement is naturally piqued for the first fresh taste of FKA Twigs in the 2020s.

Granted, she had already appeared in collaboration with Tottenham rapper Headie One on his single Judge Me, released in early April this year, but her voice did not stand alone to radiate the lyrical genius that NME referred to as “an unstoppable force of nature.” The potential for this proposed mixtape, then, is that of the chart-topping artist to give fans another open-ended full-blown flood to the system they had experienced and come to love in her previous solo work.

2020 was off to a strong start for FKA Twigs, having been awarded Best British Solo Act at the NME Awards in February. Brandishing a gold trophy cast from a hand raising its middle finger, Twigs said in her acceptance speech “Thank you so much to everybody who works with me; it’s just the world,” citing the support of her friends as being akin to taking medicine.

The artist was intending to capitalise on her recent successes with a tour of Europe and the UK, starting in June this year, but has since been forced to cancel some events due to concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.