Arca

Kick

Genre: ELECTRONIC

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For anyone who wasn't quite able to keep up with the stream of release in Arca's "kick" series, she now presents a cherry-picked selection of tracks from the series, woven together into a new narrative with twist of bonus material for good measure.

Arca’s “Kick” series will no doubt prove to be amongst the most ambitious pop projects of the next few years, and highlights from it find themselves here in a re-contextualised form, presented as a listening experience that on the one hand spans a couple of years of incessant creativity, while also being most easily absorbed in one session.

As we’ve described before, there’s the tight reggaeton bullets in ‘Prada’, and the guillded synths of ‘Rakata’, before you’re left reeling from the rambunctious snarl and attack of ‘Bruja’ via the recoiling technoid ferocity of ‘Incendio’. There’s an almost seasonal glow to her chamber styled meld of choral cadence aided by Oliver Coates on ‘Esuna’, followed by the detuned, minor key Reese bass in ‘Lost Woman Found’, and the outstanding flourish of ‘Crown’.

In the latter section Arca teams up with Safety Trance on the neoperreo banger ‘El Alma Que Te Trajo’, soaking wet with trance strings and high levels of drama. The sonic collapse of ‘Alto Voltaje’ gets a release after appearing as part of a Resident Advisor residency on BBC Radio back in 2020, before finally, ‘Sentient Savior’ tranquillises us with what sounds like it could be propaganda for an interplanetary get-away. We're left reminded just how vital this series has been.

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