Two generational musical icons – Robyn and Arca – come together on record for the first time, with the release of ‘Sexistential (Arca’s Take)’ – out now. Flexing both her production and vocal skills, it sees Arca reimagining the title track of Robyn’s hotly-anticipated forthcoming album; once again subverting expectations with a version that takes the original even deeper into the club. “I’ve loved Robyn’s music for years, and am...
Arca returns with a new double-sided single, ‘Puta / Sola’. While each track exists in its own distinct sonic world, they are released together to symbolise the complementary force of the liminal, the beauty in androgyny, and integration of both masculine and feminine energies that can harmonise in each person. It is a gesture in response to dualistic thinking – spanning the spectrum between binaries – a quantum entanglement between...
Arca has released Kick, a fan-voted ‘best of’ compilation featuring tracks from the previously released five-album KICK series. An additional five track bonus selection includes three brand new songs (‘Alto Voltaje’, ‘Ritual’ and ‘Sentient Savior’) plus two previously released songs (‘Cayó’ and ‘El Alma Que Te Trajo’), all produced during the original KICK cycle recording sessions, with each track representing a different era in the five-album series. ‘El Alma Que TeTrajo’ is a collaboration with Safety Trance a.k.a. Cardopusher, who is a...
Arca is a singularity, a point where our preconceptions and prior knowledge break down, an entrance into a new realm of being. Her transcendent, transgressive body of work has collapsed long-standing barriers that once seemed impermeable: between artist and art, between human and technology, between avant-garde and pop, and between the many disciplines—from music to visual art to fashion and beyond—where she’s made her indelible mark. To complete the KICK series,...
Arca, the Venezuelan artist, singer, DJ, performer, model, painter, pop diva and experimental music composer, has released the three newest instalments in her KICK series of albums: KICK ii, KicK iii and kick iiii. If KiCk i is a multidimensional self-portrait that held all of Arca’s many mutations, KICK ii sees her deconstruct reggaeton rhythms she grew up listening to in Caracas, balancing structure and chaos to create her most accessible work yet, without sacrificing...
The unveiling of the KICK series culminates with the announcement of the fourth, and final, album in the anthology: kick iiii. Arriving on December 3 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records, kick iiii, along with the recently announced albums KICK ii and KicK iii, will all arrive on the same day, joining the previously released KiCk i, to complete the cycle of the series. kick iiii sees Arca inviting new and former collaborators into her world Including Oliver Coates, Planningtorock, No Bra and Shirley Manson....
The unveiling of the KICK series continues as Arca shares the details of the third album in the anthology: KicK iii, due out December 3 on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Featuring the previously released single ‘Incendio,’ KicK iii finds ecstasy in turbulence, as Arca returns to the mutant club music of her breakthrough early work. Accompanying the news of KicK iii’s release, Arca is sharing a new music video for album track ‘Electra Rex,’ directed by Carlota Guerrero and shot in September 2020, featuring Arca and friends performing in...
Arca returns to premiere ‘Prada / Rakata‘, a new music video featuring two new songs from her upcoming album KICK ii, which is out December 3 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. A continuation of her work with artist Frederik Heyman, ‘Prada / Rakata’ introduces an ambitious act of musical world-building that reveals Arca’s many identities as an artist in a quantum superstate. Speaking on the songs, Arca shares:“’prada’ is about celebrating psychosexual versatility; a song explicitly about transness and nonbinary modes...
Arca, the Venezuelan artist, singer, DJ, performer, model, painter, pop diva and experimental music composer, returns to announce the details of her highly-anticipated album KICK ii; the follow-up to her 2020 GRAMMY-award nominated album KiCk i, which last week received a Latin GRAMMY Award® nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. Last week Arca re-emerged to release a long-teased, rapid-fire rap track titled ‘Incendio’. Adding fuel to the fire, today she debuts KICK ii’s first single ‘Born Yesterday’ featuring Sia, watch the video for the new song...
Venezuelan artist, DJ, singer and composer Arca and London based cellist, producer and composer Oliver Coates have collaborated on Arca’s latest work ‘Madre feat. Oliver Coates‘. Available as part of a four track maxi-single, the song is accompanied by a visual by Aron Sanchez. Music from the release features as part of an original Arca score for the latest episode of HBO’s acclaimed drama series EUPHORIA. Arca’s score –titled ‘Fantasia...
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 decade’s most avant-pop artists. To introduce the project, she first shared ‘Nonbinary‘ and her singles ‘Mequetrefe‘ and ‘Time,’ which is...
Arca has premiered a new single ‘Mequetrefe,’ featured on her upcoming album KiCk i, due out June 26th (w/ vinyl available on July 17th) on XL Recordings. In Arca’s own words, “the song “Mequetrefe” invokes the tenderness behind expressing who you are without shame, and the confidence and bravery it requires, because expression of gender-nonconforming self-states in a public space can often result in static within your environment.” A word...
Arca has officially announced the details of her new album KiCk i, which is set for release on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records: available digitally worldwide on June 26th with physical (vinyl/CD) to follow on July 17th. 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...
Arca premieres ‘Nonbinary,’ the first song from her forthcoming album KiCk i to be released via XL Recordings. The song is accompanied by a video featuring Arca; the piece is a powerful first look into the transformation that Arca’s undergone since her 2017 critically-acclaimed album Arca. With the past serving as prologue and her recent 60-minute single ‘@@@@@‘ as prelude, ‘Nonbinary’ defines a new era of Arca, which she’ll unveil...
Arca reveals a video for ‘Desafío’, the stunning track – taken from his new self-titled third album, out now – is perhaps one of the Venezuelan artist’s most accessible works to date. Watch it below! Arca (aka Alejandro Ghersi) has again teamed up with longtime visual collaborator Jesse Kanda for the video. Cathartic, provocative and sensual in equal measures, it completes a trio of Arca music videos (see also Anoche and Reverie)...
Arca has released his third full-length album. The self-titled record is the first to feature the Venezuela-born, London-based producer’s untreated singing voice. It was recorded at home in north-east London throughout 2016. Arca’s long-time visual collaborator Jesse Kanda once again directed the videos, and shot the album artwork. The heightened theatricality was inspired by Greek tragedy: “I’m representing this album performatively, extremely, dramatically. Myth can reach into the deep cortex of the...
