• Record Label: XL
  • Release Date: Dec 3, 2021
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 33 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 33
  2. Negative: 2 out of 33
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  1. Dec 7, 2021
    7
    bittersweet and ultimately satisfying end to a hugely ambitious project that always remains true to the emotions driving it -- but Arca fans would expect nothing less
  2. Dec 8, 2021
    10
    Ducha a good ending for the Kick era, SO Beautiful and lovely, feels like the calm of Arca
  3. Dec 5, 2021
    9
    Cathartic, minimalist, concise, touching, beautiful, visceral when necessary and ethereal.
  4. Dec 7, 2021
    10
    The best ending possible for the kick project. I did not understood much about the project before reading the vogue Mexico’s article about her new album and it seems so much clearer now. I like the way ARCA is playing with sounds and music to make us feel something that we never could experience in any other music gender. That actually what makes me fall in love with her work.
  5. Jul 3, 2022
    10
    the soundscapes of this album are beyond the limits of this universe and beyond the limits of the human mind. the things i feel when i listen to songs like fireprayer or estrogen are eternal. an absolute masterpiece of avant-garde ambient contemporary classical music.
  6. Aug 3, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. best album lmao bozo+L+Ratio+didn't ask+i don't care+ you're gay+cringe+skill issue+cancelled+you're bald+poorbozo+L+Ratio+didn't ask+i don't care+ you're gay+cringe+skill issue+cancelled+you're bald+poor Expand
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77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  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. 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’.
  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]