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| Mixtape by Arca | ||||
| Released | July 23, 2013 | |||
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| Length | 25:34 | |||
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| Producer | Arca | |||
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Cover art of the vinyl release
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| No Ripcord | 8/10 |
&&&&& is the debut mixtape by Venezuelan electronic producer Arca. It was released on 23 July 2013 through Hippos in Tanks and SoundCloud. Even though 14 tracks are listed, the entire mixtape is in sequence as a single track. A vinyl release of the mixtape with an alternative album cover was released on January 2014 and was limited to 500 copies.
&&&&& is an experimental electronic record with influences of dub, hip-hop, grime and ambient music.Stereogum described the record as "even darker and denser" than Arca's two previous Stretch EPs.
&&&&& received critical acclaim from music critics.Tiny Mix Tapes says the mixtape "has the potential to conjure an emotional frenzy that’s alluring to the senses in a way that so much electronic artistry fails to even approach."No Ripcord praised the mixtape for "its density, its intensity, its I'm-lost-in-a-big-city feel, its warm gust of beats blowing while the subway comes squeaking into the station, its darkness, its late-night ecstasy, its rawness, its rawness like raw milk, like drinking raw milk or eating sushi in an inexpensive restaurant somewhere on a street with trash and tweakers, its little motifs that twinkle like stars or Christmas lights, its muscular compactness."
All tracks written by Arca.
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