Arca - Mutant, album review: 'sets out to unsettle'

Venezuelan producer Alejandro Ghersi really lets fly on his second solo album
Unconventional: Arca's second album sounds like music from 1000 years in the future
David Smyth20 November 2015

Venezuelan producer Alejandro Ghersi was working on music for Björk, Kanye West and FKA twigs before he had even released a debut album.

Arca - Mutant

It seems he gave them the straight stuff, for it’s here on his second solo collection that he really lets fly.

Twenty tracks trample over your eardrums in just over an hour, foregoing anything so dull as melody and rhythm in a bid to sound like the music of a thousand years hence.

From the gruesome cover to compositions such as F****t, with its distorted voices, clangs and low rumbles, he’s set out to unsettle.

Yet he also offers beauty with the underwater blips of Vanity. Despite more mainstream artists turning his way, it’s hard to conceive of a time when this will ever sound conventional.

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