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10.0
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10.0 |
The Guardian
Ecclesiastical grandeur meets bleeding-edge dissonance
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10.0
94812
10.0 |
Crack
The best album of the year so far
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10.0
94990
10.0 |
State
It’s the work of an already outstanding artist at the top of his game, and the most breathtaking artistic achievement of the young year so far
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9.1
94779
9.1 |
A.V. Club
Exposes his humanity to intoxicating effect
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9.0
94969
9.0 |
PopMatters
Both emotionally enrapturing and conceptually thrilling
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8.6
94792
8.6 |
Resident Advisor
The clarity of Ghersi's vision allows him to dip into avant garde expressions without breaking the album's stride
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8.5
94689
8.5 |
Pitchfork
His latest feels both intimate and expansive, a connection between his melodic past and a chaotic future
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8.5
95037
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
As the world quickly descends into a farcical modern tragedy, Arca has provided the fraught sounds for either society’s painful dissolution or its eventual rebirth
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8.3
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8.3 |
Earbuddy
Arca gets up close and personal
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8.3
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8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
His most daring and enthralling record yet
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8.2
95023
8.2 |
Gig Soup
With his new opus, he’s re-attuned our conceptions of what an Arca album could be, finding a way of processing radiant melody, unguarded emotion and airy, show-stealing vocals without sacrificing content and in doing so taking his art to higher elevations
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Arca presents its artist as an icon and publicly visible figure, no longer obscured or represented by Jesse Kanda’s avatars. Here is Alejandro Ghersi’s face, and his voice, and his body, and his concerns, direct and unmediated
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8.0
96512
8.0 |
Mixmag
Marks the start of a soaring new direction
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8.0
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8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Having painted melodic landscapes for the likes of FKA Twigs and Bjork in the past, he’s found his own space musically, too: a twitchy, grubby, foreboding concoction of electronic atmospherics
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8.0
94813
8.0 |
Clash
Through ‘Arca’, Ghersi guides the listener to contort and cry their way through otherworldly, synthetic dimensions
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8.0
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8.0 |
The FT
The electronic musician has turned vocalist for his third album, with impressive results
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Music
Moves beyond beats to deliver a dramatic album that tends to the operatic
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8.0
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8.0 |
Exclaim
Ghersi hasn't lost his fondness for tempered electronic cacophony, but has expanded his palette, to mind-bendingly gorgeous results
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8.0
94898
8.0 |
Q
Ghersi occupies a sonic multiverse of his own creation. Print edition only
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7.5
94931
7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
The more Arca consolidates his sound, the more he reveals how much more space he has left to explore
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7.5
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7.5 |
The 405
It’s a challenging but rewarding listen which uncovers itself most rewardingly when given full attention on a dark and melancholic night
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7.5
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7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
If you want something that adequately reflects and condemns our appalling social/political/bodily mind-state, you could do a lot worse than the new Arca album
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Irish Times
Producer aims high to find his voice
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
Strange worlds to enjoy, if not fully understand
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