However, you can experience the music entirely free of context, as Arca lays on the pile-driver beats on ‘Bruja’, and splices melancholic flutterings and heart-breaking introspection on ‘Incendio’ and ‘Skullqueen’. That’s either incredibly deep or mildly pretentious depending on your perspective. Electra she describes as “a new archetype I propose in reference to commonly understood ideas of Freud regarding the oedipal complex.” Kick III sees Ghersi debuting a new persona of ‘Electra Rex’ – also the title of the first single. Still, amidst the collage of Godzilla grooves, psychedelic flourishes and vocals that go off like a chorus-line of banshees, it pulsates with humanity.
Her sixth album – and the third in her Kick series – is one of her most punishing yet. Tender, tempestuous, sometimes troubling, the music of Venezuelan producer Arca, aka Alejandra Ghersi, is thrilling – yet not for the faint of heart.
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