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&&&&&
Mixtape by Arca
Released July 23, 2013 (2013-07-23)
Genre
Length 25:34
Label
Producer Arca
Arca chronology
Stretch 2
(2012)		 &&&&&
(2013)		 Xen
(2014)
Alternative cover
Cover art of the vinyl release

&&&&& 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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Tiny Mix Tapes[1]
No Ripcord8/10[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.TitleLength
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. 1 2 3 4 "Arca – &&&&&". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  2. ↑ "&&&&& on SoundCloud". Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Download Arca's "&&&&&"". Complex. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Arca (4) – &&&&&". Discogs. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ Cliff, Aimee. "Arca – &&&&& [mixtape]". www.dummymag.com. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Download Arca &&&&&". Stereogum. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  7. 1 2 Iovino, Michael (September 2, 2016). "Arca: &&&&& – Music Review – No Ripcord". No Ripcord.
  8. ↑ Dazed (2014-03-18). "Arca and Jesse Kanda release nightmarish new video". Dazed. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
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