Arca Releases New Album 'XXXXX' to Critical Acclaim
Experimental electronic artist Arca has released her new album, 'XXXXX,' which is being hailed as a wild, brilliant, and psychedelic journey. Critics praise its innovative sound and exploration of primal frequencies.
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Arca: XXXXX review – a wild, brilliant album that taps into our bodies’ most feral frequencies
(XL) In the follow-up to her Kick series, Arca jumbles the building blocks of electronic music to create a beautiful, disorienting sound world XXXXX, the new album by Venezuelan producer-vocalist Arca, is reportedly laden with meaning: a press release claims that “suspended between posthuman augmentation and raw emotion, XXXXX exposes the mainframe”. But the reason Arca, real name Alejandra Ghersi, has become such a star of electronic music – and a mainstream-adjacent one at that – is not bec...
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The Venezuela-born, Barcelona-based polymath is at home in distortion on her most probing project in years The post Arca – ‘XXXXX’ review: a psychedelic trip from electronica’s great experimentalist appeared first on NME.
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