KicK iii
by Arca
  • Record Label: XL
  • Release Date: Dec 3, 2021
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 51 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 51
  3. Negative: 5 out of 51
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  1. emmarex
    Dec 3, 2021
    0
    My favorite between all the 4 new albums, it's so weird and unpredictable, it surprises you in every sense
  2. Tovar29
    Dec 11, 2021
    0
    IDK 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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#81 Most Discussed Album of 2021

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Rolling Stone
    Jan 5, 2022
    70
    An astonishing - at times overwhelming - four-album, 47-track, two-and-a-half-hour release. [Jan 2022, p.71]
  2. DIY Magazine
    Jan 4, 2022
    80
    Taken 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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  3. The Wire
    Dec 22, 2021
    60
    Having 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]
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