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- Summary: The fourth full-length studio release for the electronic artist/producer features guest appearances from Björk, Rosalía, Shygirl, and SOPHIE.
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- Record Label: XL
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Experimental Electronic
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Positive: 12 out of 16
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Mixed: 4 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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Jun 25, 2020This is Ghersi in her truest form — which is to say that it is many forms at once. The record zigzags between styles and moods at a breakneck pace, collapsing genre in its wake and crafting new pop forms – never has an Arca album held so many moments of pure songcraft.
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Jun 29, 2020The sensory overload she tends to serve up will continue to confound many – even if this is her most accessible and celebratory record to date. Needless to say, her presentation of what she describes as “gender euphoria,” provides the perfect blueprint to a more healthy, embracing, and confident exploration of the concept and conversation of gender and identity in popular music.
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Jun 25, 2020By far the bounciest, most ecstatic song cycle of Arca’s career, the album is a celebration of actualization, whether that’s spurned by finding harmony internally or in communion with another.
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Jul 2, 2020The record dazzles with its detail, beguiles with its lyrical performances and leaves a lasting impression with powerful songwriting.
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Jun 25, 2020KiCk I is a consistently enjoyable, so the fact it still feels like something of an anti-climax is testament only to Arca’s history of braveness and originality.
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Q MagazineJun 30, 2020Her multiple selves clash more often than they connect. [Aug 2020, p.110]
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Jun 29, 2020What could and should have been a coolly assured olympic plunge is instead a remarkably ungainly near-belly-flop of an album, weirdly devoid of the dense musicality, crooked charm and sheer kinetic potency which characterise Ghersi's works to date. ... The problem with KiCk i's particular brand of spontaneity is that it feels procedural and expository, rather than organic. It can seem, when the smoke clears here and there, a bit hollow.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 43
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Mixed: 3 out of 43
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Negative: 4 out of 43
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Jul 1, 2020Genius for a generation that isn’t ready for it. Arca screams. Arca made Björk sing in Spanish. Arca is Sexual. Arca is here to stay!.
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Aug 20, 2021They transcend what music is to go beyond what is imagined in defining what music is
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Jun 26, 2020perfect, I cannot get over the shygirl feature or rip the slit or just how arca generally can produce any genre???
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Jun 26, 2020such a strong album! It’s very cohesive and show us a message through every song. Miss Arca did it again.
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Jun 26, 2020
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Jun 26, 2020
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Jun 26, 2020Um das piores coisas que já ouvi na vida. Arca é ume mulhere não-binarie muite esquisite.
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