Album Rating: 4.0

I like a good chunk of this record but it's nothing to shit over. Honestly it's her most disappointing release yet. The tracks I enjoy I like quite a bit though.

Haven't really enjoyed anything she's done since the vocals became a mainstay. Her work has always come off to me as style over substance, but I could still enjoy it as an exhibition of sound design than something traditionally musical.

I get the synthesis of the organic and the artificial is something she's always done, but adding more emotive, human elements and linear structures kinda spoils the aesthetic, which is what I dug more than anything else.

She's just a much better producer than she is a songwriter methinks.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

This shreds. Arca’s most realized work I believe

Album Rating: 3.5

no showstoppers like desafio or mutant but this is definitely her most immediate album

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

"Haven't really enjoyed anything she's done since the vocals became a mainstay. Her work has always come off to me as style over substance, but I could still enjoy it as an exhibition of sound design than something traditionally musical."



i think this ties well with that pots said, although i don't feel the same way. i guess i just think the juxtaposition of the bubblegum pop, the synthetic/alien feel and the darker tone is part of a narrative itself, and not just an attention-grabber -- it hints at elements of one's story and life being trans*/transgender/non-binary without explicitly stating it



but i can definitely see where both of y'all are coming from, although maybe it's a more pronounced phenomenon on other artists of the like -- i just feel arca, like sophie, actually has something to say alongside the aesthetic exploration

Yeah I'm aware this album's themes and accessibility concessions are part of the appeal for people digging this, it just ain't for me.

Album Rating: 3.5

pls just let there be one banger that blows me away, like the t/t from Mutant

Album Rating: 3.0

I have listened to it a few times now and I must say that I find the last Arca much better.

I miss the vocals and the unbelievably gloomy mood from the last album.



On the positive side I would like to emphasize the enormously sick production. Especially with headphones which have a good imaging the album is really nice to listen to.



Furthermore the list of guest artists is unbearable.

I mean Björk, Rosalía and Sophie. That's insane.

Album Rating: 1.0

If I want this type of shit I just go and listen to Autechre's old shit

Super duper sub-par

Is that a Metal Gear Solid or Final Fantasy character on the cover?

Album Rating: 1.0

No but if it was I'd consider my rating for maybe a split second

i just feel arca, like sophie, actually has something to say alongside the aesthetic exploration

If I enjoyed the last Arca record will I enjoy this?

I liked Arca s/t when it came out and I'm not big on this but I'm also not sure I'd like Arca s/t now if I went back to it

Sell out

Album Rating: 2.5

Final three are p solid, but this relies so much on thematic/identity substance justifying it as a glorified production showcase that the accessibility kinda falls flat - listener-friendly presentation or not, there's v little to sink your teeth into here imo. S/t was just as loose, but it didn't play out as a halfway house the same way

Album Rating: 1.0

Arca has always sucked

Album Rating: 2.5

time is pretty cool, wish there were more tracks like it and less like non-binary or riquiqui.

really forgettable and uninteresting, overall.

is there a name for the fetish thing on the album cover cuz wow