Arca

Arca-Kick III-(XL1222CD)-24BIT-WEB-FLAC-2022-BABAS
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:35:45 minutes | 780 MB | Genre: Electronic
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Arca – Madre (EP) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:10 minutes | 319 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings

Arca drops the dekunstructed club electronyx in favor of captivating church-core theatrics – think Michael Nyman x Björk, ish.
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Arca – kiCK iiiii (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:49 minutes | 413 MB | Genre: Electronic, Art Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings

When this week started, there was only one album in Arca’s Kick series. Now there are five. Today, Arca has released kick iiiii, the fifth and final volume of her ambitious project. KiCk i arrived last year, with the promise of more to come. Stating this past Tuesday, Arca made good on that promise and rolled out an album a day all week. This one’s an appropriately meditative conclusion to the project, and it features a track with the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto on “Sanctuary.”
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Arca – kick iiii (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:42 minutes | 784 MB | Genre: Electronic, Art Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings

Arca has announced that kick iiii, her fourth and final album in the KICK series, will drop on Dec. 3 via XL Recordings, the same day as the previously announced albums KICK ii and KicK iii.

Arca shared “Queer,” a song from kick iiii that features Planningtorock; the other collaborators on the album include Oliver Coates, No Bra, and Shirley Manson.

Planningtorock called their collaboration a “gorgeous epic universe of a track, a queer dream come true.” It’ll be the fourth cut on the project, which Arca describes as “an entry of sensual charge in the cycle; my own faith made into song, a posthuman celestial sparkle, psychosexual pulse-width modulation, queering the void,” and it’ll see her close the KICK series with a new style of xenopop.
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Arca – KicK III (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:45 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Electronic, Art Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings

Kick III (stylized as KicK iii) is the sixth studio album by Venezuelan record producer and singer Arca. The album was scheduled to be released on 3 December 2021, but released early on 1 December 2021, through XL Recordings as a continuation to her 2020 record Kick I, and is the third entry in the Kick quintet. Kick II, Kick III, Kick IIII and Kick V are to be released the same week. Kick III has been supported by lead single “Incendio”, and “Electra Rex”. Its cover art was photographed by Frederik Heyman.
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Arca – KICK ii (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:01 minutes | 747 MB | Genre: Electronic, Art Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings

Kick II (stylized as KICK ii, pronounced as Kick Two) is the fifth studio album by Venezuelan record producer and singer Arca. The album is scheduled to be released on December 3, 2021 through XL Recordings as a continuation to her 2020 record Kick I, complementing the Kick tetralogy. Kick II has been presented with three single so far: “Born Yesterday”, featuring vocals by Australian musician Sia and A / B singles “Prada” and “Rakata”.
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Arca – KiCk i (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:13 minutes | 443 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings

Produced and recorded by Arca, KiCk i defines a new era of multiplex harmony for the Venezuelan artist, singer, DJ, performer and experimental music composer. With appearances from Björk, Rosalía, Shygirl and Sophie, this is the first time Arca has invited collaborators into her world, previously having lent her sound to some of the decades most avant-pop artists.

KiCk i is a celebration not only of the joy Arca’s been able to find in her life, but the sometimes arduous journey it took for her to find it. Her struggles to reconcile her Venezuelan heritage and her trans Latinx identity emerge as reggaetón and pop en Español. But KiCk i isn’t just a pop record, or an experimental record, or even simply a mix between the two, but rather all of them at once- and so much more. Depending on where you drop the needle you’ll find bubblegum, harsh noise, electronic psychedelia, balladry, bangers, laughter, tears, passion, and expressions of faith – sounds and ideas that don’t simply blend together, but coexist simultaneously in quantum superposition made possible inside the sonic worlds Arca builds in her music.
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