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- Summary: One of the four releases on the same day for Arca's KICK anthology is said to be "more manic, violently euphoric and aggressively psychedelic."
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- Record Label: XL
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 13 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Dec 7, 2021Pairing the risk-taking instinct of her best music with the swaggering confidence she projects as a kind of cyborg diva, it is the best of all five albums in the set, and one of her strongest full-lengths to date.
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Dec 3, 2021It’s a restless, challenging listen – beats that sound like gunfire, churning and gibbering electronic noise. She distorts her vocals in ways that sometimes remind you of Prince as his female alter-ego Camille, or the helium samples of old hardcore, though they generally sound quite nightmarish.
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Dec 3, 2021KicK iii is a more turbulent entry in the Arca universe: its relentless ability to generate movement out of stillness makes it one of her most accomplished works to date.
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Dec 3, 2021‘iii’ goes in hardest, taking its cues from the harshest strains of club music, and beckoning in pure, confrontational chaos almost immediately.
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Dec 8, 2021Anyone who's seen her DJ could tell you about the confrontational aggression she hasn't yet captured on an official album. KicK iii tries, pushing the choppy, freeform and unrelenting part of Arca to the fore and pulverizing the listener over its brief, 36-minute runtime.
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Jan 4, 2022Taken together, the albums are overwhelming in their stylistic diversity; one minute, she’s serving up clattering electro on the likes of iii’s ‘Skullqueen’ or ‘Ripples’, and the next, we’re hearing her break classic ideas of what ambience should mean to fit her own mould on the Oliver Coates-featuring ‘Esuna’
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The WireDec 22, 2021Having all this material together is bittersweet – rather than four distinct sets, couldn’t these styles have been brought together in a more innovative way? Arca’s work is invariably surrounded by much chatter about disrupting musical forms, but four albums divided into four distinct moods feels like an unusually conservative vehicle for her ideas. [Jan 2022, p.59]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 13
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Mixed: 0 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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Dec 6, 2021very refreshing album. arca is leaning more towards avant garde pop and i love it
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Dec 8, 2021Kick iii PROBABLY is the Best from the Kick era, Arca just made a good album
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Dec 14, 2021
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Dec 19, 2021
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Jan 26, 2022This nasty, edgy, technological, industrial, dystopian, transhumance, avant-garde and noise is, AWESOME. This is the future of the music!
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Dec 21, 2021
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Dec 11, 2021IDK WHY BUT GOT THE FEELING THAT MOST PEOPLE DIDNT NOTICE THIS ÁLBUM WAS RELEASED COUPLE DAYS AGO, BUT, JUST LISTENED ON SPOTIFY AND I LOVEEEEEEIT
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