“So far, Arca is best known as a producer. He's already produced some of FKA twigs' best work, he's co-producing Björk's next album, and he had a hand in four songs on Kanye West's Yeezus. Despite his high profile collaborations, his excellent debut album Xen is doggedly experimental, perhaps the strangest music he's made.”
“Arca's latest record is certainly abstract, but not quite as genre-bending and trend-setting as the music she's been releasing for the past two years.”
“Arca's latest record is certainly abstract, but not quite as genre-bending and trend-setting as the music she's been releasing for the past two years.”
“Alejandro Ghersi (a.k.a. Arca) is the young producer responsible for some of the artiest moments on Kanye's Yeezus – he's deeply uninterested in coloring inside the lines. But his debut LP is a reminder that he cut his teeth in the Venezuelan indie-pop scene, lending a certain delicate quality to his clamoring music. Xen plays with watery, surrealistic synths and skewed interpretations of reggaetó”
