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90
Perhaps through his relentless work output, Arca has transcended the limitations of digital structure to arrive at fluid alien-jazz.
10y
90
His second album is maelstrom of unresolved differences and pluralities, yet in accentuating these differences and pluralities rather than forcing them to compromise with each other, he’s crafted a record to get lost in, to lose your mind in, and to recast it in more enlightened form all over again.
10y
90
In compelling the listener to approach his music experientially, Ghersi is able to successfully create an almost fantastical sub-reality that can only be occupied through this record.
10y
90
The amount of detail and the flow of Mutant is truly staggering; there are tracks that seem to take you down through secret passages to the next track, while you can still hear the sounds of the previous track fading away in the room above you.
10y
84
Mutant is an album of contrasts, and Ghersi has an uncanny ability to let extremes interact with each other to create something new.
10y
83
The relative sparseness of melody makes Mutant slipperier than much of Arca’s older work, but the way he’s able to use texture and rhythm as his primary tools of progression is worth the patience it asks of us.
10y
80
Despite more mainstream artists turning his way, it’s hard to conceive of a time when this will ever sound conventional.
5y
80
The music seems to be reflecting and dissecting that very expectation of evolution; its sounds viscerally evoke morphing, growth and instability.
10y
80
Distressing, transcendental and beautiful, it’s a journey so remarkable it could excuse a hundred false starts.
10y
80
It might be a bit early in his career to hail Arca as a visionary, but he has certainly done more to change the landscape of modern music than the majority of his peers.
10y
80
Mutant, even as it threatens to filibuster itself at over an hour long, feels like the album that Xen was meant to grow into, with every lesson that Vulnicura taught integrated at a molecular level.
10y
80
Arca’s found a way to convey some quite complex ideas and emotions without the need for lyrical cues.
10y
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.
10y
70
Mutant is just as, if not even more so, erratic than anything we have heard previously from Ghersi.
10y
70
The album creaks and shifts incessantly. It evolves. As the title suggests, it mutates.
10y
70
Accordingly, Mutant is a revision of Xen’s shock factor, where curiosity is the only familiar tool available to aid in deconstructing its unremitting nihilism.
9y
70
Mutant eschews rhythm in favor of abstract noise
6y
70
Over twenty tracks exceeding an hour, the album is a proper evolution of last year’s “Xen,” down to its waxen demonic artwork.
8y
64
The forms are extraordinary and the surfaces dazzling, but it's unclear how to navigate through them. You're impressed but also confused, and you keep an eye out for the exit.
10y
60
This record prefers to forge a new feel out of complete chaos, in the most deranged way possible.
10y
60
Venezuelan experimental electronic music producer Arca expands on many of the sonic themes forged on her full-length debut last year.
8y
60
Perhaps the NSFW art and videos for Vanity and En skew the narrative, but Mutant feels even more sexual than its predecessor.
11mo
60
A rich, dazzling, occasionally bewildering series of freewheeling sonic experimentation.
5y
Mutant feels like an intensive, intriguing indie horror movie that can't stop showing gore.
Arca creates an insane experience with this long progressive electronic that feels like it's evolving in the next track.
Every track is something special that you can't predict what sound Acra would pull over.
Im kinda speechless on this album, cuz a lot of things are going on, I can't call it or name it.
Arca is just in her most experimental and avant-garde form on this album.
She is queen for making ... read more
Some of the most experimental and just truly exciting IDM projects. Listening to this thing as one experience start to finish really is a hellish yet fun experience
I've come to the conclusion that Arca is not a human being. His production is absolutely and catastrophically next level.
The album is an absolute banger full of experimental electronic influences and walls of industrial sound. The first half of the album is an absolute onslaught of powerful abrasiveness, while the tail end of the record is riddled with beautiful and marvelous atmospheres. Arca shows off his diversity with this record and it is thoroughly impressive!
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This is the most unique and interesting project of the last two decades. Every song expresses so much emotion, while she barely says any words, which is really impressive in my opinion.
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Track List
| 1 | Alive 3:56 | 89 |
| 2 | Mutant 7:27 | 90 |
| 3 | Vanity 4:16 | 87 |
| 4 | Sinner 3:35 | 86 |
| 5 | Anger 2:00 | 82 |
| 6 | Sever 2:13 | 85 |
| 7 | Beacon 0:48 | 74 |
| 8 | Snakes 4:50 | 87 |
| 9 | Else 2:30 | 78 |
| 10 | Umbilical 2:09 | 78 |
| 11 | Hymn 1:57 | 81 |
| 12 | Front Load 2:44 | 86 |
| 13 | Gratitud 3:44 | 81 |
| 14 | En 3:04 | 85 |
| 15 | Siren Interlude 0:43 | 74 |
| 16 | Extent 2:34 | 83 |
| 17 | Enveloped 2:22 | 80 |
| 18 | Faggot 3:10 | 89 |
| 19 | Soichiro 4:35 | 90 |
| 20 | Peonies 3:29 | 80 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 2 minutes
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