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Mixtape by Arca | ||||
Released | July 23, 2013 | |||
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Length | 25:34 | |||
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Producer | Arca | |||
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&&&&& is the debut mixtape by Venezuelan electronic producer Arca. It was released on 23 July 2013 through Hippos in Tanks and SoundCloud.[1][2] Even though 14 tracks are listed, the entire mixtape is in sequence as a single track.[3] A vinyl release of the mixtape with an alternative album cover was released on January 2014 and was limited to 500 copies.[4]
Composition
&&&&& is an experimental electronic record with influences of dub, hip-hop, grime and ambient music.[1][5] Stereogum described the record as "even darker and denser" than Arca's two previous Stretch EPs.[6]
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
Tiny Mix Tapes | [1] |
No Ripcord | 8/10[7] |
&&&&& received critical acclaim from music critics.[8] Tiny Mix Tapes says the mixtape "has the potential to conjure an emotional frenzy that’s alluring to the senses in a way that so much electronic artistry fails to even approach."[1] No Ripcord praised the mixtape for "its density, its intensity, its I'm-lost-in-a-big-city feel, its warm gust of beats blowing while the subway comes squeaking into the station, its darkness, its late-night ecstasy, its rawness, its rawness like raw milk, like drinking raw milk or eating sushi in an inexpensive restaurant somewhere on a street with trash and tweakers, its little motifs that twinkle like stars or Christmas lights, its muscular compactness."[7]
Track listing
All tracks written by Arca.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Knot" | 2:13 |
2. | "Harness" | 1:53 |
3. | "Fossil" | 1:50 |
4. | "Feminine" | 0:35 |
5. | "Anaesthetic" | 2:09 |
6. | "Coin" | 2:15 |
7. | "Century" | 1:15 |
8. | "Mother" | 1:15 |
9. | "Hallucinogen" | 2:06 |
10. | "Pinch" | 1:37 |
11. | "DM True" | 2:19 |
12. | "Waste" | 2:34 |
13. | "Pure Anna" | 0:47 |
14. | "Obelisk" | 2:47 |
Total length: | 25:34 |
Personnel
- Arca – production
- Jesse Kanda – artwork
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Arca – &&&&&". Tiny Mix Tapes.
- ↑ "&&&&& on SoundCloud". Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ↑ "Download Arca's "&&&&&"". Complex. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ↑ "Arca (4) – &&&&&". Discogs. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ↑ Cliff, Aimee. "Arca – &&&&& [mixtape]". www.dummymag.com. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- ↑ "Download Arca &&&&&". Stereogum. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
- 1 2 Iovino, Michael (September 2, 2016). "Arca: &&&&& – Music Review – No Ripcord". No Ripcord.
- ↑ Dazed (2014-03-18). "Arca and Jesse Kanda release nightmarish new video". Dazed. Retrieved 2017-04-13.