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| 4.5 superb | Gmudds | February 26th 23 |
This is a thrilling, dynamic, surreal, and fiery statement of an album. In the first half, Arca overloads the senses with what is
essentially one banger after the next. Tiro and Prada involves reggaeton harmoniously combined with Arca's unique skill in
electronic production, and from the sensory overload of Ara�a, the flow of the album seemingly becomes more dislodged
and strange, obscure and unsettling, melancholic, chaotic and even menacing. This is yet another groundbreaking album
for Arca, and a brave step into the mainstream that pushes Arca's experimentalism to a new level. Perhaps the weaker spot
on this album is Born Yesterday - where the production remains dynamic, yet with Sia's involvement feels frustratingly less
memorable and conceptually clear. The album concludes brilliantly with Andro, starts suspensefully with Doña, and pretty
much everything in-between veers on the fascinating, to the exceptional.
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| 2.6 average | Erwann S. STAFF | December 14th 21 |
Arca at her most latin (yet?) The reggaeton beats have me tired since 2017, but the eerie synths kinda compensate for them. And then, halfway through, an abrupt tonal shift happens, with ambient pop leading the charge. This cut-in-half approach decreases the overall experience, the record seemingly not knowing what to do with its ideas - plus the ambient pop bits were better done on her s/t. The Sia tune is a bop tho.
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| 3.5 great | ajcollins15 | December 9th 21 |
The first of four albums released under the ?kick? name and in general this is one of the more interesting albums from Arca, because it explores and incorporates Latin music. Latin music as a whole has never been a big one for me, I have always found it quite stale. However this album from the South American born artists Arca, blends the sound pallet of Latin electronic music with the heavy hitting sounds of post-industrial and deconstructed club, which forms a complex yet explorative genre showcasing the best ideas of Latin music. Still I find this album to really only be that and have a hard time really coming back to it because of how one-dimensional it is.
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| 2.5 average | Brabiz | December 1st 21 |
Found this depressingly boring tbh.
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| 3.0 good | bigguytoo9 | December 1st 21 |
Probably my least favorite album from her. I dont think I will be returning to this record much.
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| 3.0 good | Risodo | November 26th 22 |
| 3.0 good | MvdW | November 3rd 22 |
| 1.5 very poor | Tundra | January 31st 22 |
| 3.5 great | emmny | December 14th 21 |
| 3.0 good | 2ool | December 14th 21 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | December 10th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Wolfe | December 8th 21 |
| 3.5 great | alamo | December 4th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Xirae | December 4th 21 |
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