Mutant
by Arca
  • Record Label: Mute
  • Release Date: Nov 20, 2015
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 104 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 92 out of 104
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 104
  3. Negative: 8 out of 104
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Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. AllMusic
    Dec 22, 2015
    80
    Mutant may be some of his most challenging work yet, but as Arca's music becomes more abstract, the viewpoint behind it comes into focus in ways that embrace strangeness, ugliness, and beauty equally.
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  2. No Ripcord
    Dec 18, 2015
    90
    The record’s lack of organization and resistance to stasis work against its accessibility. Those willing to mine such a dense work will be rewarded in a visceral sense, but may be left groping in the darkness for a specific, externally-fabricated meaning. Either way, the abstractness and wandering abandon of Mutant define not only the album, but Alejandro Ghersi’s approach to music.
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  3. The Wire
    Dec 16, 2015
    80
    Almost every track has a fearsome radiance to its high end and even in those parts without drums or squared off structures, the surges of sound recall collective dancefloor ecstasies. [Dec 2015, p.44]
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