Album Review: Arca - Mutant

Arca's second long-player is yet another step into the hauntingly eerie but strangely beautiful corner of the electronic music universe he inhabits. 

Deep, heavy bass frequencies evoke a cavernous sense of space, but the industrial scale on which they are presented is intended to completely overwhelm. An underlying aggression is designed to instill a sense of fear and foreboding. In this future, the machines are definitely winning. Yet even in the most abrasive of aural environments, Arca allows voluptuous sound textures and melodies that drift and blossom to sensuous effect. A musical auteur of sorts, Arca is an important new voice in electronica.