Arca - Mutant (CD)

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Arca'€™s 2014 album Xen was an angular and, at times, insular record driven by aggressively queer juxtapositions. It served as a study of the self that refused categorisation and embraced erraticism; employing confrontational clashes of style and sound to emphasise a morphing dynamic between obscurity and vulnerability.

Mutant, meanwhile, is about sensuality and impulsiveness as escape routes from rigidity: "€œsoftness as a weapon when the mind attacks itself."€ Anxieties are harmonised by self-confidence in the optimism and inclusiveness of transformation. Mutations expose the resonances and malleability of identity. This album takes pride in deformity, innocence, distortion and vulnerability: traits traditionally ostracised as undesirable and regressive.