Nothing major but while I vaguely recall some songs early on that were okay enough, the guy's persona is increasingly irritating and nothing I've heard in recent years raises more than a shrug. Kinda defines 'try too hard' in my view.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
i've been enjoying the new record!
― joshywinty (josh), Monday, 10 April 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/20968
reeeally want to see an arca show. this sounds great
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 04:37 (six years ago) link
Really enjoying this, it has that stream-of-consciousness beat vibe of the early releases, just endlessly creative.
https://youtu.be/2gjlcSZ9cQE
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 21 February 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
Maybe it just hit me at the right time but I think this is my favorite Arca release. Freedom, menace, beats.
― lukas, Friday, 21 February 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
meant to say "beat tape". But in the best way.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
my home surveillance device was playing this the other day and I was curious how it would pronounce the name, so I asked what was playing
"sorry, I don't know what's playing right now"
― lukas, Monday, 24 February 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6-svj5HK9o
"Arca shares video for new song “Time,” confirms Björk and Rosalía for KiCk i. Shygirl and SOPHIE will also appear on Arca's fourth album ..."
― lukas, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
The new album is FIRE. Machote is just sheer beauty probably my favorite Arca song now. The guest spots are all killer. Big highlight of the year so far.
― octobeard, Saturday, 27 June 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
The Rosalía track on this is really stunning
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 28 June 2020 04:49 (three years ago) link
stunning album, really physical and intense sounds, and songs instead of aimless drift like a lot of their previous stuff
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
It's dope, agree that it's cool to hear the signature sound design be so focused
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
I'm afraid it'll never really work between Arca and me. The tracks w/ Rosalía and Björk are ace imo, as is the second track. On the whole though there is just too much awe of the sound design, and too little actually enjoying the songs, for me. Will continue to cherry pick great songs off of this, but as an album, it's just too all over the place for me.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
The Björk feature feels like a bit of an outlier to me, but then I feel that way about a lot of Björk guest spots- her style is so distinctive it tends to dominate proceedings. I really like the rest of the album though.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
looks like they're releasing a new album every day this week?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
wait really? There's a kick iiii and iiiii coming???? I was only aware of the trilogy
― octobeard, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
iiii is out there and i'm going to assume iiiii will drop tomorrow
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
holy crap I am loving this drop - iii was better than ii imho, can't wait to hear iiii with tracks titled "Whoresong" "Queer" and "Alien Inside"
― octobeard, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Arca has released a brand new song, called 'Cayó', and shared news of a 5xLP box set compiling her 'Kick' series of albumshttps://t.co/BBWuMexae1 pic.twitter.com/M8S95e16xi— The Quietus (@theQuietus) April 7, 2022
― nxd, Thursday, 7 April 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link