Xen

great but strange record

awesome album

I fully recommend buying but mostly listening to Arca Xen. Interesting artwork and new not clichéd, thrilling music.

This was bought for my son , when asked he raved "top quality sound manipulation, and production, intricately mastered."it was delivered promptly, and was well packed

Archie's debut album ‘Xen’ is a shapeshifting bullet to the body. The brittle elasticity of ‘Now You Know’ opens to stunning effect, a staggering introduction to a fascinating album. An already disorientating start takes a solemn turn with ‘Held apart’, where Arca plays a piano track which is just very carefully nudged rather than distorted. Its a subtle technique used throughout ‘Xen’, on tracks like ‘Sad Bitch’, ‘Wound’ and ‘Family Violence’, which shows a versatility missing on his excellent ‘&&&&&’ mixtape.Arca plays it both ways, and everything inbetween, and tracks like ‘Thievery’ and ‘Fish’ show that he can deliver on the dancefloor as much as in the mind. ’Xen’ flows of its own volition, rhythms and beats come and go, morphing into new patterns mid-track, set to no time or place. Its clear that Arca wants to keep you on your toes, yet there’s a peculiar equilibrium which stops you feeling alienated, a tempting in-between state of unease and pleasure.‘Xen’ is a world full of intricacies and abstractions which sound both a world away yet rooted in the now, a prismatic worldview of chaos and contradictions. The future is certainly bright for Arca.

Excellent, couldn't ask for better packaging! Thank you very much!